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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Thu Apr 18, 2019, 08:25 AM Apr 2019

Trump's new Cuba crackdown puts US at odds with Canada and Europe

theguardian.com

Donald Trump has taken another step towards reversing Barack Obama’s historic rapprochement with Cuba with a measure that earned swift criticism from allies in Canada and Europe.

The US announced on Wednesday that it would enable lawsuits against foreign companies that use properties nationalised by the communist government after Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/17/cuba-trump-new-restrictions-canada-europe

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Trump's new Cuba crackdown puts US at odds with Canada and Europe (Original Post) lordsummerisle Apr 2019 OP

Would there be a problem with statute of limitations? no_hypocrisy Apr 2019 #1

no_hypocrisy

(46,116 posts)

1. Would there be a problem with statute of limitations?

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Thu Apr 18, 2019, 08:32 AM

Apr 2019

Sixty years after an allegedly illegal taking of property could be argued as a bar to litigation.

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