What happens if/when they win?
Is Cuba going to write a check?
Good luck with that.
Love it!
Leftists call it nationalization. Rational people call it theft.
Everyday is like Election Day all over again. More winning!
Yea, ExxonMobil! Now go after Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, and Venezuela for nationalizing your oil concessions, wells, and processing facilities.
Sounds good to me.
Exxon will win and because it's in a US Court, and after all appeals, the courts will give Exxon the rights to confiscate tankers with crude oil as compensation.
Before that happens, cuba will beg the USA to cut a deal, and they will become our new best friend.
There are still hundreds of thousands if not millions of Cubans living in the USA, and they have lived the success that comes with Liberty.
Many of those people would go back to Cuba to help get it back on it's feet, without the fear of communism returning.
Cuba is only destitute because of socialism not because the Cuban people will not work. Given an opportunity, I believe that they will be outstanding.
Interesting reading about the claims. Apparently Office Depot has the largest claim; Marriott has a large claim. Chevron is on the list. There appears to have been some sort of deal between Marriott’s predecessor in interest and Olivetti’s (the Italian company) predecessor in interest; I don’t know how that would impact the claim.
PDF of the complaint here. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/exxon.pdf
The US at the near height of its comparable strength was not able to take down Cuba in the late 50’s and early 60’s. The blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 almost got us into nuclear war. Luckily the Kennedy-Stevenson secret compromise of withdrawing US missiles from Turkey in return for getting the Soviet ones out of Cuba worked. If it had not, at least then the US had a massive public fallout shelter program and many people had their own home semi-deep basements and in some cases stocked shelters.
I'll echo what another poster said, the Cubans I've met are great, hard working people.
By and large the Christians hate the government. One told me that he wasn't afraid of going to prison because, “the whole Island is a prison.”
The Demonrats should take a clue, Trump plays hardball.
Go figure, this is the first I've heard of this.......
Exxon wins in US court and Cuba basically says so what.
US has zero jurisdiction in Cuba... so a big court judgement with no way to collect.
Big whoop.