The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a press release today announcing a consent decree between the agency and Ericsson de Panama S.A. in Panama City, Panama. Under the consent decree, Ericsson’s Panamanian subsidiary agreed to pay $1.753 million…
ABOVE: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen On October 19 this blog reported on a hearing held by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee with respect to efforts that the U.S. government and U.S. companies are taking to respond to and mitigate potential…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing yesterday, reported here by the Oil & Gas Journal, on the possible impact of exploratory oil drilling by non-U.S. companies in Cuban territorial waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Michael…
ABOVE: Juan Pablo Roque (left)Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (right) A jilted wife, a Cuban spy, and OFAC: how could this blog ignore a story involving all three at once? Last week a federal district judge in Miami ruled that Ana Margarita…
According to an article dated August 1 in the online edition of German newspaper Die Welt, the U.S. Internet payment company PayPal closed the account of a German website that had been selling Cuban rum among other alcohol and alcohol-related…