Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
This story was originally published on canalcaribe.ict.cu. [1]
USA dusts off the Helms-Burton Law
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Date: 2021-08
Imagine that tomorrow there is a demand from the famous Paris Hilton against the Cuban government for the nationalization of the hotel of its great grandfather, the central Habana Libre, today Tryp of the Meliá chain and yesterday Hilton, the North American businessman related to the model.
It was perfectly possible that and hundreds of other claims, even thousands if we add those of companies and individuals, if the noises that are sounding threatening in the last hours become real facts and the Department of State of the United States decides to apply Title III of the Helms-Burton Law, never applied since its founding more than 20 years ago,since writing and freezing it was the same thing.
Why did I bring up the subject? You have already seen the news on Wednesday and known of the Cuban rejection of a new measure by the United States government against Cuba. I propose to understand a bit what is happening.
Freedom and Democratic Solidarity,” is dusted off.
In other words, this is the legal mechanism that internationalizes the blockade of Washington towards Havana, which enforces the so-called “extraterritoriality”, which are the limitations that third countries have for trade with Cuba.
Here comes the financial persecution, the refusal of credits and aid for the development, and of course, the investment in Cuban state properties.
The legislation is applied since its emergence in1996, except its section III, referring to the establishment of legal reprisals, that is, punishments, for anyone who does business with companies or properties of any kind nationalized after 1950 by the government of the island and that once belonged to Americans.
The moratorium to such title obeys to that it would be a true commercial chaos, could not the Canadians invest in the Cuban oil, the Spanish chains in the hotel industry and even some descendant of the owners of the showy houses of Miramar could take advantage of the troubled river to put together a lawsuit.
If that happens, if the United States decides to apply the Helms-Burton Law in its entirety, for now it is studying it, and for it has reduced the suspension of the application of Title III from 6 months to 45 days, obviously the blockade would be intensifying , as the Cuban side denounces, but above all, it would raise a huge upheaval in the international community that would see its relations with Cuba much more affected, a veritable whirlwind for all.
For now it is a threat, as all those who have come to account drops since he assumed Donald Trump, and which has as visible faces the national security adviser, John Bolton, and the star adviser to the tycoon, the anti-Cuban Marco Rubio.
It is worth reminding the entire US leadership that the act of nationalizing is perfectly legal, protected by international law provided that the established codes are met.
The peoples have the right to freely dispose of their goods and wealth, to collectivize them if they understand it to be profitable.
In the Cuban case, in addition to adhering to such ends, the nationalization was also a response to commercial aggressions of the neighbor, annoyed by the arrival of the bearded.
What should have been compensations? It is true. The Cuban government has expressed on more than one occasion that it does not shirk its responsibilities in this regard, in fact, it has compensated its compensation commitments with other countries except the United States, which refused to negotiate at all times, and remains one of the many topics covered by the law. in the necessary bilateral political dialogue that Washington does not complete.
Of course, here is a detail that is not minor: Cuba owes the United States, and the United States owes Cuba, every year the millionaire figure that represents losses due to the application of the blockade is disclosed.
About it we must talk, calmly, between equals but the stormy and almost null relationship prevents any progress.
I insist, the dialogue and the search for agreements are imposed, which obviously is not the option of those currently sitting in the White House and the North American Capitol.
They prefer “blackmail and brutal attack,”as Cuban Foreign Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez would say on his twitter account.
Continue tightening the nut and while, distracting with his hostile attitude towards Havana, to the world public opinion of the reverberation that Mr. Trump has at home.
(C) Cuba TV, Cuban state owned media.
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