I have regularly visited Cuba several times a year since 1998. My many visits have been to do professional research and to attend and participate in legal conferences mostly having to do with foreign investment. All my visits and activities in Cuba are legally based on U.S. law. As many other observers, I have witnessed […]
The Legal Relations Between the U.S. and Cuba
Notes1 My first trip back to Cuba was to the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. My second trip was in October of 1995. When Cuba did not have an Eastern European-type of transition after the Soviet Union collapsed I went back to try to understand why Cuba had survived. I was able to […]
The Impact of Cuba’s New Real Estate Laws on the Island and the Diaspora
RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Cuba’s current economic reforms are limited and moving forward slowly, but they are moving. As Rolando Anillo said about the reforms in his presentation, “sin prisa pero sin pausa.” The range of the topics covered by the reforms is quite extensive. They include agriculture, small businesses, foreign investment, tax policy, reducing government […]
Prospects for Tourism in Cuba: Report on the Residential Sales/Leases in Golf and Marina Developments
This report is partly based on two law review articles written by the author: Real Estate Investment in Cuba: Back to the Future, 11 Florida Journal of International Law (University of Florida) No.3, 1997. Real Estate Development in Cuba: Present and Future, 15 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law (Nova Southeastern University) No.3, 2009. […]