The problem with many economic sanctions, particularly those aimed at drug lords, is that they wind up hurting the wrong people. Consider the case of the designation of the inaccurately named John Angel Zabaneh by the Office of Foreign Assets…
Here are a few recent odds and ends that are worth a mention (and to catch up on a few things I missed while on vacation): The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) issued guidance as to which activities are “gunsmithing”…
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…
My apologies for yet another post arising out of Receivers of Sabena v. Deutsche Bank, but there is one more important point to be made if you’ll bear with me. (For background, here are links to the first post and…