LatinNews Daily - 22 May 2026

*The US supreme court has ruled that four cruise lines, Swiss-based MSC Cruises, and US-based Royal Caribbean Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and Carnival Corporation, can be sued by US-based Havana Docks Corporation for using docks and facilities at the port of Havana that the Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) government took from the US company in 1960. The case relates to the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, Title III of which allows US nationals, including naturalised Cubans, to sue companies and subsidiaries in Cuba believed to be using properties expropriated after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The US supreme court began hearing the case on 23 February, along with another on which it has yet to rule, in which US oil giant ExxonMobil is suing Corporación CIMEX SA, a state-owned conglomerate in Cuba, for oil and gas assets seized in 1960 when it was operating under the name Standard Oil. When the US supreme court began hearing the cases, the Miami Herald noted that it was “the first time litigation related to those claims ever reached the high court”. The outcomes could leave the companies owing hundreds of millions of dollars. Corporación CIMEX SA is part of Grupo de Administración Empresarial SA (Gaesa), the state-owned military conglomerate that controls much of Cuba’s economy, which the US government recently blacklisted along with its executive president, General Ania Lastres Morera. Also yesterday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it had arrested Lastres Morera’s sister, Adys Lastres Morera, who it said had entered the US as a “lawful permanent resident” in January 2023 under the previous Joe Biden administration (2021-2025). ICE said that she would be removed and her lawful permanent resident status revoked because “her presence violates the Immigration and Nationality Act”, citing the fact that she is Lastres Morera’s sister.

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