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Under Trump change, Cuba business partners can now be sued

By GISELA SALOMON and the first lawsuits against
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN European and American
MIAMI (AP) — In 1958, companies doing business
José Ramón López's fa- on confiscated properties
ther owned Cuba's main in Cuba — thanks to the
airport, its national airline Trump administration's de-
and three small hotels. cision to activate a provi-
Conchita Beltrán's family sion of the U.S. embargo on
had about 2,160 acres (874 the island.
hectares) of sugar and to- Known as Title III of the 1996
bacco fields. And the fami- Helms-Burton Act, the sec-
lies of Mickael Behn and tion allows Americans, and
Javier García Bengochea Cubans who later became
had docks in Havana and Americans, to sue almost
Santiago de Cuba. any company deemed to
All properties were taken in be “trafficking” in proper-
Cuba's socialist revolution. ty confiscated by Cuba’s
The dispossessed families government. Every presi-
later moved to the United dent since the law’s pas-
States and abandoned sage has suspended Title III
hope of compensation as because of objections from
Cuba and the U.S. severed U.S. allies doing business in
relations and fought during Cuba and because of the
decades of the Cold War. potential effect on future
But on Thursday, Behn and negotiated settlements be- In this Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, people put their luggage in a private taxi as they arrive from the U.S.
Garcia Bengochea filed tween the U.S. and Cuba. to the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba.
what were believed to be Continued on Page 4 Associated Press