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• Trump Administration Begins to Implement New Cuba Secondary Sanctions Regime Targeting Business With Cuba

  Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration marked the latest phase in its escalation of sanctions against Cuba, the subject of the longest running U.S. sanctions program. On May 1, 2026, President Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14404, establishing a new secondary sanctions regime that authorizes the imposition of sanctions on companies, individuals, and...

• President Trump Issues Executive Order Imposing New Sanctions on Cuba

  On May 1, 2026, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled, “Imposing Sanctions on Those Responsible for Repression in Cuba and for Threats to United States National Security and Foreign Policy.”  Pursuant to the EO, the Secretary of State and/or Secretary of Treasury are able to designate for blocking sanctions any foreign person...

• Trademark Registration in Cuba: Why Companies Should Be Thinking Ahead

  Why Companies Should Be Filing Trademarks in Cuba For most companies (and trademark lawyers), Cuba is a someday problem. But someday problems in first-to-file countries have a way of becoming someone else’s mark. The issue is not politics or timing. Cuba is a first-to-file trademark jurisdiction, and waiting too long can leave you fighting over...

• Neustra America Convoy carrying humanitarian aid arrives in Havana

  Over 650 delegates, from over 33 countries and 120 organizations, arrived in Cuba on Saturday, bringing 20 tons of aid. The Neustra America Convoy, named for the essay by Cuban nationalist José Marti, arrived in Havana to break the US embargo. Inspired by the Global Sumud Flotilla, which attempted to bring aid to Gaza in...

• "For decades, Cuba has been held up as an ideological lodestar by leftists across Latin America…."

  “Even among opponents, Cuba often earned grudging respect as an unyielding bastion of resistance against generations of American presidents. But now Cuba is running out of oil, and its economy is nearing collapse. A new wave of right-wing leaders in Latin America see Cuba not as a place of revolutionary nostalgia, but of authoritarian dysfunction....

• Cuba escalates surveillance, harassment of political prisoners’ families, Amnesty says

  Cuban authorities are escalating surveillance and harassment of families of political prisoners while denying adequate medical care to jailed dissidents, Amnesty International said Monday. The human rights organization reported that relatives of prisoners of conscience face police cordons around their homes, movement restrictions, and threats, and that these actions are occurring in the absence of...

• Cruise Passenger Goes Overboard From Nieuw Statendam

  A seventy-seven year old passenger reportedly went overboard from Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam in the early morning hours of January 1, 2026 as the cruise ship was returning to South Florida. Online posts on social media show the HAL ship was sailing northeast of Cuba when the incident occurred. The Nieuw Statendam was on a seven-day...

• Time of Death Revealed in Anna Kepner Case While FBI Remains Silent

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released limited information as it continues its investigation of the death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner. One key detail now confirmed is that Anna Kepner passed away on Friday, November 7, at 11:17 a.m., according to the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner. Per The Cruise Globe, the Carnival Horizon was...

• Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to End Humanitarian Parole for Migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela

  Today, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status of more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.  The Court order granting a stay of the injunction barring the Trump administration from lifting the relief from removal. Justice Jackson, joined by Justice Sotomayor, dissented from...

• CHNV Parole Pause, Continued: Mass Terminations Still Blocked, but SCOTUS Appeal Looms

  By: Dawn Lurie, Owen Wolfe, and Alex Madrak In the ongoing narrative of the Trump administration’s attempt to repeal the Humanitarian Parole program for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV), on Monday, May 5th, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) motion for a stay pending...

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• Foreign Investment – Is Cuba Ready?

  For over five decades, Cuba has been economically isolated from the U.S. and much of Western Europe. A throwback to the 50s, Cuba’s capital and metropolitan hub, Havana boasts classic American cars and cobbled roads, a place frozen in a tell-tale snap-shot of events that led to the U.S. embargo. In ...

• HHS and Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health Sign a Historic MOU

  Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) entered into a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health. The MOU establishes coordination across a broad spectrum of public health issues, including: Healthcare systems and public health...

• Cuba Referendum Approves Family Code Allowing Same-Sex Marriage and More

  AP reports that on Sunday, voters in Cuba approved a new Family Law Code that allows same sex couples to marry and to adopt. The over 400-Article Code also allows surrogate pregnancies and expands grandparent rights. Cuba’s evangelical movement opposed the new Code. The Code was approved by 66.9%...

• End of Cuban embargo could prove costly for unprepared trademark holders

  President Barack Obama has called on the U.S. Congress to lift the U.S. embargo on Cuba and normalize trade relations. French President François Hollande recently urged the same of the U.S., saying there is growing interest in doing business with Cuba. When the embargo is lifted, U.S. companies...

• Thad McBride and Cheryl Palmeri Author Article Outlining Business Opportunities in Cuba

  We authored an article for Upstart Business Journal outlining potential business opportunities in Cuba, now that many trade and travel restrictions have been eased. As we point out, “it is now easier than at any time in the last 50 years for U.S. companies to export their products to and sell their ...

• Big Changes Re: Cuba

  NBC reports that Cuba will start accepting deportees returned to the country from the United States. Planeloads of deportees will start flying from the U.S. to Cuba “in the coming weeks.” Why is Cuba willing to now accept deportees when it hasn’t since late 2020? The U.S. has promised to restart...

• America Turns A Page: Cuba Removed From U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

  The United States officially removed Cuba from its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism on May 29, 2015, according to an announcement by the U.S. State Department via Twitter. The change takes effect immediately, according to the accompanying press release from the State Department. Cuba had been...

• Back to the Future? Foreign Investment Protection in Cuba

  By Emil R. Infante and Harout Jack Samra Few countries match the expropriatory model of revolutionary Cuba. Described by one scholar as the “largest uncompensated taking of American property by a foreign government in history,” the expropriations touched virtually every industry on the island.[1]...

• U.S. Embassy in Havana to Resume Immigrant Visa Services

  On January 4, 2023, the U.S. Embassy in Havana will resume immigrant visa processing for immediate relatives, family preference applicants, diversity visa applicants and visas for K fiancées. Until then, the U.S. Embassy Georgetown in Guyana will continue to process immigrant visa applications for...

• Cuba Designation as State Sponsor of Terrorism Rescinded

  The U.S. Department of State rescinded Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism today.  While the rescission of Cuba’s designation eliminates a major hurdle in restoring diplomatic ties with Cuba, the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba remains in effect, including its restrictions on...