The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) today announced the long-awaited (or, perhaps more accurately, long-feared) amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations designed to limit travel by U.S. persons to Cuba. (U.S. persons remain free to travel without restriction to the…
Last week, before other things got in the way, Florida governor Rick Scott looked in the mirror and suddenly realized that he had been elected by the American voters to run the foreign policy of the United States. So, without…
On Monday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that insurance giant AIG had agreed to pay $148,698 to settle charges that it had insured 555 shipments involving Sudan, Iran and Cuba. Although some of the apparent violations involved…
President Trump today announced new sanctions on Cuba, effectively rolling back many, if not most, of the changes made by the Obama administration to loosen the sanctions. The most significant changes will make travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens to…
Apparently Cuban diplomats in Cuba like to drive spiffy new Hondas (as opposed to the somewhat older cars almost everybody else in Cuba drives). But, because a dealership in Ottawa financed leases on those cars for the Cuban Embassy through Honda…