https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2020/10/unite...
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
"WARNING: TOUR PACKAGES FOR SCUBA DIVING, BICYCLING, HUNTING, FISHING, HIKING OR OTHER TOURIST TRAVEL IN CUBA ARE ILLEGAL"
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/cubatrav.pdf (from the previous page)
The Canadian government and the EU have programs to mitigate that liability but it's still there.
No, they don't. Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, and Italy are among Cuba's top trade partners.
Source?
> The reason why all of these coubtries are in Canada or the EU is
But they're not all in Canada or the EU. Brazil, Mexico, China, and Russia are also among its top trade partners.
> those are the two jurisdiction where the government has laws to compel you to trade with Cuba
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It's illegal anywhere to profit or sell stolen goods. Why not simply return the property to it's owners?
where to begin?
> historians have been unable to find any evidence that Columbus was genocidal, or had any particular ill-will towards the Native Americans that he encountered.
Even the Spanish thought Columbus was genocidal enough to arrested, chained, and shipped back to Spain for judgement.
genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
From [0]:
Witnesses testified that his brief government of Hispaniola was marked by routine cruelty not only to the native Taínos but also to Spaniards who defied or mocked him.
Columbus wanted living and multiplying subjects to tax and govern. He was not interested in depopulating newly acquired territories.
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-chr...
Also, since 2019? What about the previous 60 years?
This law has had a chilling effect ever since it was signed. It's sélective enforcement makes it worse, not better, as it allows the USG to privately threaten entities whenever most convenient.
It's not even the only way that secondary sanctions can be exacted. The US can also effect force on foreign corporations by threatening to sanction their US suppliers.
Maybe that's not how it works, but boy I'd be shocked.