It's called "The Helms-Burton Act"
From CNN News in the U. S., the London-based Reuters News Agency, and elsewhere around the world today -- June 23rd in 2026 -- the top headline related to Cuba reports that "Exxon can sue Cuba over property confiscated in 1960, the U. S. Supreme Court rules." That headline today in late June of 2026 merely underlines the fact that, since the victory of the Cuban Revolution over Miami-backed, Mafia-backed, and U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista, Cubans in Miami have gotten rich while Cubans in Cuba have increasingly faced starvation. Today on June 23rd-2026 the U. S. Supreme Court, via a 6-3 vote, ruled that mega-rich Exxon can sue Cuba over property Revolutionary Cuba "confiscated in 1960." The ruling today, as always, upholds the infamous Helms-Burton Act that back in 1996 codified/legalized for eternity, if necessary, the right of Cubans in Miami to legally get rich and for Cubans in Cubans to starve, be beprived, and made miserable -- which was the purpose of the 1962 U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade law that has surrounded the nearby island ever since. And the ruling today by the U. S. Supreme was to confirm that it is OK for Miami Cubans to continue to sue desperately poor Cuba in U. S. courts for whatever it is that they want to sue destitute Cuba for.
The fact that very few Americans have no idea what The Helms-Burton Act stands for is merely par for the course in the distorted realm of U.S.-Cuba Relations. In other words, Americans are not supposed to known what The Helms-Burton Act is or why it was enacted and why it was made to be eternally legal.
Since 1959 Cubans in Miami have been able to enact whatever laws they want in Florida and in Washington. Their two prime purposes are to get very rich and to starve Cubans in Cuba into submission if other means such as attacks on the island like the Bay of Pigs military in 1961 didn't work. Thus, with never any opposition from the U. S. government, the American people, or the U. S. media, the Cubans in Miami have been permitted to enact whatever laws they choose, including The Helms-Burton Act.
In 1996, long after the 1962 Embargo and other devices had made Miami Cubans rich and Cuba's Cubans poor, U. S. President Bill Clinton very, very reluctantly signed The Helms-Burton Act into law. Note that Cuban-Americans such as Senator Bob Menendez, on the far-left above, stood powerfully over Clinton at the signing.
The most punitive provision attached to Helms-Burton is entitled "Title 3" and that addition is widely denounced by other nations all around the world. It seems that only Miami Cubans like laws that make them rich while starving the masses of Cubans on the nearby and very vulnerable island nation of Cuba. But today -- on June 23rd in 2026 -- the U. S. Suprime Court as always confirmed again that the total legalization of both Helms-Burton and "Title 3" will remain viable parts of the USA's democracy.
Back in the 1950s mega-rich U. S. companies made huge fortunes in Dicator Batista's Cuba but after Batista was overthrown in 1959 by the Cuban Revolution Cubans who fled primarily to nearby Miami and have for generations now used the USA's two-party political system to grow richer-and-richer while tormenting Cubans in Cuba more-and-more. Miami's prime tools for doing that are The Helms-Burton Act and its provision known as "Title 3." Both of those tools today, as always, continue to be very legal after another Miami-friendly ruling from the U. S. Supreme Court on June 23rd in 2026. Of course, as always, the American people simply don't give a damn.
As I mentioned earlier, President Bill Clinton very, very reluntantly signed The Helms-Burton Act into law in 1996. After signing it into law, please note how scared and weak President Clinton looked when he was forced to look UP at Cuban-American Bob Menendez who was clapping proudly. From January of 1959 until June of 2026 all U. S. Presidents, whether Democrats or Republicans, have meekly allowed Miami Cubans to dictate U. S. policies regarding Cuba. And today on June 23rd in 2026 the U. S. Supreme Court meekly said, "Hey, that's alright!!"
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