Mayabeque, Cuba: Title III of the Helms-Burton Act is absolutely illegal, not only in the international law, but also in the constitutional, procedural and international jurisdictional matters.

It allows US citizens who were subject of nationalizations or expropriations by Cuban laws from January 1959, for goods worth over $ 50,000 dollars to present a claim before US courts, against those people who "traffic" with their old properties.

However, this regulation does not take into account basic reasons and grounds in relation to nationalization, among others, the exclusive competence to hear and decide on them from the courts of the expropriating State, as established in Resolution 1803 approved by the UN General Assembly, on December 14, 1962, entitled Permanent Sovereignty over natural resources.

That Resolution provided: "In any case in which the question of compensation gives rise to a dispute, the national jurisdiction of the State that adopts such measures must be exhausted. However, by agreement between sovereign States and other interested parties, litigation may be settled by arbitration or international judicial settlement. "

Therefore, the Head of the Department of Legal Advice of the Provincial Office of Justice of the Council of Provincial Administration, Alenay Felipe Herrera explained that the main battle is legal, because without attending to international law or the most elementary rules of international jurisdiction, the courts of the United States are endorsed a competition that they do not have.

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