Under Any Other Name

Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque ExportLawBlog opposes, as most readers know, unilateral sanctions, including the Cuba sanctions. But the speech given yesterday by Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque, Cuba’s Foreign Minister, before the UN prior to the UN’s annual vote on a…

Duped or Duplicitous?

The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) just released the decision of an Administrative Law Judge recommending a 15-year denial of export privileges to Megatech Engineering, a Mumbai-based distributor of MTS Systems products, and three of its employees. At issue…

Still No Cigar

President Bush addressed this afternoon at the State Department a gathering of family members of Cuban political prisoners. Not surprisingly, he vowed to keep the Cuban embargo in place: As long as the regime maintains its monopoly over the political…