Posted on 01/21/2019 6:11:31 PM PST by caww
“This is a very, very big deal,” the Florida Republican and Cuban-American said...“I think really good things are coming from this. And so, you can't minimize the impact.....
”President Trump is getting ready to place an unprecedented amount of economic pressure on Cuba’s communism regime and some of the non-U.S. companies that have invested there, according to a leading Republican lawmaker.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has signaled that Americans who decades ago had property stolen by Fidel Castro’s regime and sold to other foreign companies may soon be able to sue those companies to recoup their losses. That will intensify financial pressure on the island government, according to Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, and have ripple effects for authoritarian states around the world.
"A lot of the atrocities committed by the Maduro regime are committed by Cubans sent there by the Castro regime,” Diaz-Balart told the Washington Examiner. “The Castro regime is very fragile, at best. The Venezuelan money is drying up, and I think you're going to have a lot of companies that — if they knew that they could get sued for trafficking in stolen properties, I think they're going to look elsewhere to invest. And so, I think that's a really important factor."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Nope, never a factory ‘57 El Camino.
I’d like a Red, AWD, Turbo-Diesel, manual trans ‘57 Nomad.
That would be amazing! Good choice!
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