CUBA JUSTICE: It's Possible

And An European Court Can Act!!
{Friday, May 10th, 2019}

    Since the Trump administration activated Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act as a final step  to starve the Cuban economy once and all, it might have been a bridge too far for the USA's Batistiano-driven Cuban policy. That's because in addition to hurting Cubans on the island it also hurts other nations, as reflected by the typical international headline above. Translated from Spanish to English, the headline says: "The Activation of Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act Is Rejected Beyond the Borders of Cuba." INDEED IT IS!!! In fact, the top officials of the 28-nation European Union are threatening to sue the USA in NON-U.S. COURTS and in forums such as the World Trade Organization. In Miami federal courts, unrepresented Cuba has routinely and successfully been sued for often ridiculous reasons, with the Batistiano-directed U. S. government guaranteeing some questionable rewards with frozen Cuban assets including cash and property. The EU leaders call the U. S. Embargo of Cuba, in place since 1962, "cruel and illegal." SO WHAT IF CUBA COULD SUE THE U. S. IN A EUROPEAN COURT FOR THE ILLEGAL EMBARGO, FOR THE THEFT OF GUANTANAMO BAY, FOR NUMEROUS TERRORIST ACTS INCLUDING THE BOMBING OF THE CIVILIAN CUBANA FLIGHT 455 IN WHICH ALL ABOARD WERE KILLED, etc., etc. And guess what? There indeed is such an European Court. I'll explain.

    This week -- on May 8th, 2019 -- the sensational trial in Italy of Amanda Knox was back in the headlines.  In 2007 she was an American exchange student in Italy when she was convicted in the murder of her roommate, British exchange student Meredith Kercher. Knox served four years in an Italian prison before her verdict was overturned. On May 8th she announced she was returning to Italy to participate in an Innocence Project for people unfairly imprisoned. That revelation also revealed this tidbit: The European Court of Human Rights ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox $20,600 "for failing to provide her a lawyer and an appropriate interpreter when she was first detained."

      The European Court of Human Rights is located in Strasbourg, France, and it has delivered more than 10,000 judgments since 1959. Since 1959, after the Cuban Revolution chased leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to Little Havana in Miami, thousands of Cubans...including some in Miami...have suffered massive Human Rights violations perpetrated by Cuban exiles, many of whom were U. S. government workers, such as the infamous Luis Posada Carriles.

    For centuries prior to the 1898 Spanish-American War, Cuba was dominated by Spain but after beating the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in 1959 it has been a sovereign nation -- neither the property of America or Europe. The European Court of Human Rights in France could consider Cuban cases now that Title 3's activation of the "cruel and illegal" Helms-Burton Act includes violating what the European Union nations believe is their own Civil or Human Rights as independent nations that believe they should not have to abide by or be punished by the USA's harsh dictates regarding Cuba.

    In fact, this book published by Oxford University in England minutely explains "How to take a case to the European Court of Human Rights." And now with the international stretch of the "illegal and cruel" Helms-Burton Act, Europeans as well as totally innocent Cubans can possibly sue the United States for Human Rights violations.

   The High Representative and Foreign Affairs leader of the 28-nation European Union, Federica Mogherini, loves the Cuban people and visits the island often. She is shown above with Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. I am surprised that Rodriguez has NOT ALREADY solicited the help of his friend Mogherini to get Cuba some justice in international courts against the gross excessives the island has suffered since 1959 at the hands of the U.S.-backed Little Havana Batistianos.

   The European Court of Human Rights in France is one forum that might address Cuba's grievances against the United States, especially with EU leader Federica Mogherini strongly and famously defining the United States embargo against Cuba {since 1962} as "exceedingly cruel and grossly illegal." Beyond that, what about...the World Court, the World Trade Organization, etc.?

      NOW LET'S SEE: The undeniably "cruel and illegal" economic embargo of Cuba has cost the island how many billions...or trillions...of dollars since 1962? The Miami or Newark courts, of course, would say "zero." And U. S. courts would say the same about such things as the theft of Guantanamo Bay way back in 1903. The strong-armed treaty called for the U. S. to pay $2,000 a year for the lush land, which it did, but since 1959 Cuba has refused to cash the checks, which with interests now total just over $4,000 a year. What is Guantanamo Bay, for well over a century, worth? In an unbiased courtroom, Cuba would have a case...as it would, using de-classified USA documents, if the island nation could sue the USA for multiple terrorist acts, including but not ending with the civilian CUBANA FLIGHT 455.

       De-classified U. S. documents like this one could be used to support Cuba's claims that U. S. operatives were the terrorists that bombed Cubana Flight 455 into the ocean, killing all on board. This document and others indicate that the U. S. government almost immediately knew who the perpetrators were.

    In an international court, could the families of all the victims of Cubana Flight 455 sue the United States government???

     You know, Cubans on the island cry too. The sister and mother in this photo were waiting at the airport in Havana for the return of their brother and son on Cubana Flight 455 after he and 27 other teenage Cuban athletics had just won Gold Medals in the Central American Championships. When the photo above was taken, that sister and mother had just learned that the airplane had crashed into the ocean and there were no survivors. If Cuba could sue the U. S. for that tragedy, the sister shown above, still distraught as an adult, would surely travel to France if Cuba could sue the U. S. in a non-U. S. courtroom concerning such things as...Cubana Flight 455.

    If the European Court of Human Rights in France could successfully force Italy to pay American Amanda Knox $20,600 for two minor violations, what could the same court rule concerning what the United States owes Cuba and Cubans for such things as...the Embargo, Guantanamo Bay, Cubana Flight 455, etc., etc., etc.???

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