Dear Ben,
In addition to the above, I have found the below information. The
report ?Cuba: Issues for the 109th Congress? may contain the
information you require.
Statement made by Daniel W. Fisk, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Remarks to the Cuban American Veterans
Association, Miami, Florida
October 9, 2004
?We are actively investigating more than two dozen Helms-Burton Title
IV visa sanction cases. The most recent Title IV trafficking
determination was made in April. No visa sanctions were imposed
because the Jamaican company terminated its commercial involvement
with the confiscated property in question. This was the first
determination in 5 years. The law was implemented; the law worked.?
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/rm/37025.htm
Cuba: Issues for the 109th Congress
7 July 2005
?To date the State Department has banned from the United States a number of
executives and their families from three companies because of their
investment in confiscated U.S. property in Cuba: Grupos Domos, a
Mexican telecommunications
company; Sherritt International, a Canadian mining company; and BM Group, an
Israeli-owned citrus company. In 1997, Grupos Domos disinvested from U.S.-
claimed property in Cuba, and as a result its executives are again
eligible to enter the United States. Action against executives of
STET, an Italian telecommunications company was averted by a July 1997
agreement in which the company agreed to pay the U.S.-based ITT
Corporation $25 million for the use of ITT-claimed property in Cuba
for ten years. For several years, the State Department has been
investigating a Spanish hotel company, Sol Melia, for allegedly
investing in property that was confiscated from U.S. citizens in
Cuba?s Holguin province in 1961. Press reports in March 2002,
indicated that a settlement was likely between Sol Melia and the
original owners of the property, but by the end of the year settlement
efforts had failed. In mid-June 2004, Jamaica?s SuperClubs resort
chain decided to disinvest from two Cuban hotels. The State Department
had written to the hotel chain in May
advising that its top officials could be denied U.S. entry because the company?s
Cuban investments involved confiscated U.S. property.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32730.pdf
Statement by H.E. Mr. Felipe Pérez Roque, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic of Cuba, Under Agenda item 18 Entitled "Necessity of
Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo Imposed by the
United States of America Against Cuba" New York, 8 November 2005
"The blockade prevents, under the Helms-Burton Act, investments by
third-country companies in Cuba claiming that these are connected with
properties subject to claims by the United States. For that reason,
the CEOs of Canada's SHERITT are still under sanctions - and last
year, Jamaica's SUPERCLUBS withdrew from Cuba."
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/especiales/noviembre05/especiales8nov1.htm
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