Exposing #PoliceAbuse & #Repression in #Cuba: Bilingual (English/Spanish) archive of graphic evidence because #CommunismKills. Sensitive material #Freedom4Cuba
Mar 19 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 #HelmsBurton 🇨🇺🇺🇸
Every major US law on Cuba exists because of something specific the Castro tyranny did. This thread breaks down the actions, the laws they produced, and exactly what it takes by law to end the embargo. Because most people arguing about this have no idea what the law actually says. ⬇️
2/10 1959.. The Castro tyranny seizes American-owned oil refineries, sugar mills, hotels, telephone companies and manufacturing plants. No compensation. International law is clear. When you nationalize foreign property you owe compensation. The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission certified thousands of claims from US nationals. Not a cent was ever paid.
US response: The embargo. Executive order by Kennedy, 1962.
Mar 18 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1/9 🧵 Foreign investors have been losing everything in Cuba for decades. Their companies, their money, their freedom, and in some cases their health.
Here is what really happens when you do business with a dictatorship.
2/9 🧵 🇨🇦 Cy Tokmakjian, Canada, 2011. Built one of the biggest foreign owned companies in Cuba. Trucks, transport, equipment. Arrested without warning in October 2011. Convicted on bribery charges his lawyers called fabricated. Sentenced to 15 years. Canada fought diplomatically to get him out in 2015. His company and assets were never returned.
Sources: The Globe and Mail, CBC News, Amnesty International
