2021
January
-The State Department included Banco Financiero Internacional in the List of Restricted Cuban Entities.
-North American Sugar Industries Inc. filed lawsuits against U.S. companies BBC Chartering LLC and DSV AIR & SEA Inc.
- The State Department announced the inclusion of Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List.
-Cuba was placed on the Commerce Department's Foreign Adversary List under Executive Order 13 873, signed by Trump.
February
-OFAC announced a settlement to avoid a civil lawsuit with digital financial services company BitPay, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia). The settlement included a fine of $507 375.
-Biden issued a notice extending for one year the State of National Emergency related to Cuba declared by President William Clinton on March 1, 1996.
March
-Hilda M. Castañedo Escalón filed a lawsuit against the companies Trafigura Trading llc (United States), Trafigura Trading LLC (Singapore), and Trafigura Group Pte Ltd (Singapore) for being the alleged heir and representative of shareholders of the companies that own the Matahambre mines.
-Rancho King Inc. filed a lawsuit against several Cuban companies, alleging that the defendants use and continue to benefit from the properties that were confiscated.
May
- The Secretary of State notified the Congress of Cuba's certification as a country that "does not fully cooperate" with U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.
September
- Biden signed a memorandum extending for one year the application of economic measures against Cuba under the legal framework established in the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917.
-The German firm Brüel & Kjær Vibro Gmbh, supplier of the technology for the vibration monitoring systems of the thermal turbines of the National Electric Union, announced that it would not enter into contracts with Energoimport.
October
- French supplier CNIM informed the trading company Devexport that it could not continue with the contracts for spare parts for the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant, due to U.S. regulations.
-The production and services in the agricultural sector generate losses for a value of US$ 270,932,30, between 2021 and 2022, due to U.S regulations.
-The Cuban company Transimport made 518 requests for equipment. It only had 9% of the requests met.
-A total of one hundred foreign banks were identified as being involved in 261 actions to close accounts and other transactions and, as a result, the effects on the banking-financial sector amounted to 260.8 million dollars, a figure 93 million more than that reported between January and July 2021.
-Dozens of Cuban diplomatic missions in the world have lost their relationship with the banks that traditionally provide them with services due to their fear of reprisals from the U.S. Government.
2022
January
-The Dutch multinational bank, Internationale Nederlanden Groep, decided to block all donations to the Progressive International delegation that would travel to our country.
-The digital lodging platform Airbnb Payments, Inc. had to pay, at the beginning of 2022, a fine of 91,172 dollars, imposed by OFAC, for accepting payments from Americans who traveled to Cuba outside the categories authorized by the White House.
-While dozens of nations, friends and Cubans living abroad showed their solidarity with Cuba after the fire at the oil storage facility in Matanzas, the blockade continued to hinder the arrival of international aid to the country.
-The National Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship was unable to make a transfer to the account of the International Financial Bank, destined for donations in case of emergency, because the BPM bank and the Milan branch of Banca Etica alleged that the BFI was on the list of entities sanctioned by the U.S. State Department.
Translated by ESTI
