Category: News & Media

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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On April 13, 2026, President Trump signed into law S. 1884, the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025.  The bill passed the Senate unanimously in December 2025 and the House unanimously in March 2026.  The law is the most significant congressional action on Nazi-era art restitution since the original HEAR Act of 2016, and it carries implications that extend well beyond the museum sector and the Holocaust-era context in which it was drafted.

This alert summarizes the statute; explains why it matters to both claimants and institutional holders; and offers a point we think is usually missed in the first wave of commentary on laws of this kind: property-claims practice is a marathon. The clients who prevail, whether they are heirs pursuing a claim or institutions defending one, are almost always the clients who began documenting, organizing, and preparing years before anyone else understood the case was ripe.

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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.