Some Cubans in London wanted to send a piano to Conservatory Amadeo Roldan in Havana. They raised money for this gift by holding a classical music concert and sold tickets for the event through the U.S. company Eventbrite. Things immediately…
Longtime friend and blog reader Pat had a good catch (so to speak) with respect to yesterday’s post on the Ernest Hemingway International Billfishing Tournament in Cuba. The post noted that participation in the tournament by U.S. persons might be…
ABOVE: Messrs. Wilkins and Whitlock in Cuba [See update to this post here.] Every year Cuba has an internationally famous sport fishing tournament. Fisherman from the United States have always cast envious eyes at the tournament just a short hop…
By now, we’ve all seen these stories. A slightly dimwitted, possibly drunk, prankster writes “I ⤠ISIS” in the memo line of a check or in the description field of an online payment service and then is shocked, shocked to…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) last week updated its Cuba FAQs with this perplexing little blurb that can only charitably actually be called an “answer” or the “A” in FAQ. 68. May a person subject to U.S. jurisdiction…