The company has operated cruises to Cuba since 2016, when the Obama administration sought to normalize relations.
By Karen DeYoung Karen DeYoung Associate editor and senior national security correspondent Email Bio Follow May 2 at 7:11 PM Miami-based Carnival Cruise Line on Thursday became the first U.S. company sued for using property confiscated six decades ago by Cuba’s revolutionary government, after the Trump administration ended a waiver of the law permitting such lawsuits.
“Effective May 2 . . . Americans will finally have a chance at justice,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time in a Twitter post. The Cruise Lines International Association, an industry group. said that travel to Cuba “falls under the lawful travel exemption under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act,” the 1996 law. “Our cruise members have been and are now engaged in lawful travel to Cuba as expressly authorized by the U.S. federal government.”
But the trafficking provision, barred from implementation until now, has never been interpreted by U.S. courts. The Trump administration has said that it not only covers U.S. companies and entities but is also applicable worldwide. It also denies visas to any individuals associated with such “trafficking.”
“The most recent estimate we have from 1996, at the time that the law was enacted, [is] that there could be up to 200,000 uncertified claims . . . and that value could very easily be in the tens of billions of dollars,” Kimberly Breier, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, told reporters last month.
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