Havana, Cuba: Since May 2, a person can claim to Cuba from the United States companies, public spaces and also, the school where their children study; the hospital to which the family comes or a sports facility.
That is what Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, recently activated by the US government, intends. An outrage to our sovereignty with a colonizing and expansionist spirit. It is nothing more than a juridical engendro, that illusively tries to snatch to the Cubans the conquests reached sixty years ago.
And as for its disastrous Title III, the intention to compensate potential claimants of US properties nationalized in Cuba with the triumph of the Revolution, is no more than a pretext, Radio Rebelde publishes.
The website of Cubadebate quotes the Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, who said in Havana: "On principles such as those established in Law 80 of 1996 (Law Reaffirming Cuban Dignity and Sovereignty), our
Government guarantees that no foreign law will impede the use for the benefit of the Cuban people of the properties that were once nationalized by laws that were fully compliant with the norms of international law, and that no court, anywhere in the world, can ignore with impunity "
During a meeting with foreign businessmen who invested in Cuba and representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in the Island, Malmierca pointed out that Helms-Burton is inapplicable in Cuba. However, absolute truth is not a reason to demobilize.
On the contrary, it is necessary to join forces to make clear the most resolute rejection of that policy of arrogance and disrespect towards the international community and, in particular, towards Cuba. "
That law, issued just half a year after Cuba approved its first foreign investment law (Law 77 of 1995), has the clear objective of frightening the business community to dissuade it from developing its activities in our country. “Over such challenges, since then, the relationship of many of the foreign companies with Cuba has been formed," he said.
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