Norwegian Breakaway in Saint Petersburg (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES A Federal judge ordered that Norwegian Cruise Line must pay $110 million in damages for use of a port that Cuba’s government confiscated in 1960. U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom made
Credit: hotelmanagement.net / Gabriel Escarrer, Meliá Hotels International CEO By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Chief Executive Officer and VP of Spain Meliá Hotels International Gabriel Escarrer has been banned from entering the United States due his company’s investments’s in Cuba. Apparently,
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / The Spain-owned Meliá Cohiba hotel across from Malecón sea in Havana, Cuba By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A court in Spain last week dismissed a lawsuit against Meliá Hotels International relating to operations in Cuba. The action by the Spanish
Source: MFARussia.twitter / Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Affairs Minister of Cuba Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at news conference in Havana, Cuba July 24, 2019. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Biting U.S. sanctions and a sharp drop in aid from economically
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Cuban-American heirs of a bank nationalized by Cuba’s government filed a lawsuit against France’s Société Générale alleging the multi-national bank profited from confiscated property. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The American family of the founders of a Cuban
Photo by: Gary Raynaldo / The Spain-owned Meliá Cohiba hotel across from Malecón sea in Havana, Cuba By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES Descendants of former Cuban businessman Rafael Lucas Sanchez Hill have filed a lawsuit in Spain against the Meliá that seeks to recover
Credit: translatingcuba.com / Federica Mogherini and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on a 2018 visit of the High Representative of the EU to Havana. (EEAS) DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF While the U.S. under President Trump is rapidly breaking all political and economic ties with Cuba that
Photo by Gary Raynaldo / Vintage American car in Old Havana, Cuba By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Congress Monday he intends to suspend a section of the Helms-Burton Act for 30 days beginning March 19, that allows
Photo by Gary Raynaldo / Vintage American automobile in Havana, Cuba By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The future of U.S. engagement with Cuba is at risk if the Trump Administration allows a policy that would subject U.S. and foreign companies to lawsuits for “trafficking” in