May 2: Cuban property lawsuits unleashed!

From our Bureau of Genuine Social Justice

Socialists and “progressives” of all stripes like to think of the redistribution of wealth as “social justice.” This little bit of Orwellian doublespeak allows them to change the meaning of “theft” from a sin into a virtue.

And this is only one of innumerable semantic flips in present-day leftist jargon.

Well, as it turns out today is a landmark day in the flipping of “social justice” doublespeak, for the owners of property stolen by Castro, Inc. are now finally able to sue the thieves and their partners in U.S. courts.

Genuine social justice, not of the leftist kind.

At least two lawsuits are being filed today, one against Carnival cruise lines, the other against Spanish hotelier Melia.

Fire away!

One Cuban family already featured here on Babalu is in the headlines again today.

Loosely translated from Marti Noticias:

Due to the activation of Title III of the Helms Burton Act this May 2, the descendants of Rafael Lucas Sánchez Hill are preparing lawsuits in US courts against the Spanish companies Meliá and Blau Hotels & Resorts, reports the newspaper ABC.

The family with more than 100 descendants of the landlord based between the United States and Spain has been preparing since 1996 for compensation litigation with the Santa Lucia Central Company.

The litigation against Spanish companies will be to exploit hotels on land of 40,000 hectares north of Holguin that was confiscated by Fidel Castro in 1960.
These are the hotels owned by Grupo Gaviota and Meliá Sol Río de Luna y Mares, and Paradisus Río de Oro, and those of the Blau Costa Verde chain, and Costa Verde Beach.

Descendant Jorge Latour Sánchez, 84, told the Spanish newspaper ABC that being able to go to trial now is “a blessing from heaven because it’s going to be 60 years since our properties were stolen”.

In the past the Sanchez Hill and its legal counsel, Nicolás Gutiérrez, negotiated with Meliá for possible compensation and there were meetings between 2000 and 2002. Both parties were very close to a compensation agreement for five million dollars (4.5 million euros ), ABC reports

“The Sanchez Hill, with the help of Gutiérrez, have also filed a lawsuit against Meliá in Spain that, after the failure of an act of conciliation, will present next week in a court in Palma de Mallorca for unlawful usufruct with property stolen in the foreign, “the newspaper reports.