“I should be richer than Elon Musk but those filthy commies seized my family’s property and used it to massively benefit the public at large”
Yeah, ok, good
Cry more
From the court opinion:
Taking his allegations of fact as true, as we do at the motion-to-dismiss stage, we know that Regueiro’s father, Vilaboy, purchased the airport [in 1955] through his company, CAISA. In 1959, the Cuban gov-ernment confiscated the airport. Vilaboy and his family then fled Cuba for the United States. When Vilaboy passed away on March 2, 1989, ownership of CAISA passed to Regueiro [under Florida law]. Regueiro became a United States national in 2015. American Airlines has operated flights to and from the airport since 1991 to the present.
So a lot of things feel off here. If Vilaboy fled to the U.S. with his family in 1959, why was his son not a U.S. citizen until 2015? Was he a citizen of Cuba, or some other country? When was his son even born? And if CAISA was a Cuban company, how did it get to Florida? Legally, wouldn’t it have ceased to exist once the revolution happened? Something smells of bullshit here.
the bulk of the logic around the US-cuban embargo and it’s penalties are centered around the notion that the current Cuban government “stole” all the national infrastructure and all the agricultural/residential property when it nationalized these things and used them or redistributed them to benefit the people of Cuba. this economically injured the gangsters, compradors, and US corporations that had been awarded sweetheart contracts and been using them to extract outrageous rents and ever increasing concessions of power from the inhabitants. therefore, anyone doing business with any organization based in Cuba is effectively benefiting from this “stolen property” and similarly engaged in crime. like you bought and resold a stolen stereo from a fence. except with seaports, airports, and other national infrastructure. if you read about it, it’s hog wild crazy what the US is doing with the embargo to support these absolute ghoulish losers.
having been to Cuba myself and seen it with my own eyes, imagining the scope and scale of what the Absolute Worst People on Earth lost in the revolution… I can understand their rage. I laugh at it and mock it, but they lost HUGE with Cuba. it really was the crown jewel of imperial dominance in the western hemisphere.
and the people there just took it back for themselves and their children. the dislocated heirs will be enraged for several generations, I’m sure. florida is a dog shit consolation prize.
Smh, his family were just simple airplane farmers before the revolution
“confiscated” lmao
Uncritical support for nationalization.
American Airlines lawyers arguing that the Cuban revolution and its appropriation of national infrastructure was legal is gonna be really funny.
Coz would this airline really hand this Gusano a bunch of cash because his dad ran like the chickenshit he is?
I don’t usually follow the constant stories of America’s legendary litigiousness and the nonsense that gets filed with their courts, but this case is gonna be a good one.
