Author: jpoblete

The New York Sun has published a foreign affairs feature examining the deteriorating state of Cuba, the recent visit to Havana by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and the long-unresolved claims of U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated by the Castro government after 1959.

The article surveys Cuba’s collapsing infrastructure, the new wave of American sanctions targeting entities such as Gaesa and Moa Nickel, and the role Americans may play in any post-transition rebuilding of the island.

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From Bloomberg News (March 17, 2026):

“Even if the regime in Havana were to fall, “there is no way to untangle the knot that is the disaster of the Cuban economic system without resolving these cases,” said Mauricio Tamargo, a lawyer with Poblete Tamargo LLP and former chairman of the U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the government body that verifies such cases. “These expropriations are at the core of Cuba’s economic problems.”

Read the Bloomberg story, Trump’s Cuba squeeze renews fight over $9 billion property claims.