The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Cuban dictatorshipCarlos Fernández de Cossío, stated that the regime is willing to compensate the citizens and companies of USA whose properties were nationalized after 1959.
These statements, offered to the Drop Site media, occur shortly after Miguel Diaz-Canel admit the existence of talks with Washington, a fact that the island’s authorities had initially denied.
Despite maintaining confrontational rhetoric and ensuring preparation for possible military aggression, the Cuban regime is now seeking a lump sum agreement. Under this scheme, the dictatorship would deliver an amount to the US administration so that it can manage the claims of its citizens, the portal reports. Diario de Cuba website.
However, the Cuban dictatorship conditions this compensation to the negotiation of a comprehensive agreement that addresses economic sanctions and the embargo. The regime’s approach also includes the demand to allow levels of US investment on the island that are currently prohibited.
Fernández de Cossío pointed out that the dictatorship had already established similar agreements in the past with six other countries whose properties were expropriated, and maintained that the United States was the only one that did not accept the conditions offered in the 1960s. The official stated that there are studies according to which, if the deal had been accepted at that time, the payments would have already been concluded.
This change in the official position of the Cuban regime occurs in a context of internal crisis and reflects an attempt to give in to the historic demands of the United States to obtain relief from the economic restrictions that weigh on the island.
