He lost his properties in Cuba, was exiled in Miami and will now be compensated with US $ 29.85 million for a hotel chain

He Cuban American Mario Echevarría won a historical demand to the Expedia Group Corporation and will receive compensation of US $ 29,850 million. A federal jury of Miami condemned the company for the improper use of a property confiscated to the Echevarría family during the regime of Fidel Castro.Mary Echevarría will be the beneficiary of A historical failure: it is the first to be issued under Title III of the Helms-Burton Lawa section included by President Donald Trump in 2019 during his first administration.Mario Echevarría will be the beneficiary of a compensation of US $ 29,850 million issued under Title III of the Helms-Burtonpage Law Official/Expedia.com.AREL Federal Judge of Miami Federico Moreno He considered that, through its different entities hotel.com LP, Hotels.com GP and Orbitz LLC, The Expedia Group obtained unseeding profits in the Iberostar Mojito, Iberostar Colonial and Pullman Cayo Coco that are on land expropriated by the Cuban regime to the Echevarría family, according to 14ymedio. “The demanded entities showed offering customers in these hotels on their travel websites. The defendants admit that they did not investigate whether the hotels were in confiscated land”, Said the federal judge. The beneficiary will be the Cuban Mario EchevarríaAmerican citizen since 1983. Man He claimed the property of Cayo Coco that, he said, took his family in 1959 during the Agrarian Reform Law. The experts cited during the trial said that the lands of Cayo Coco were occupied by the Castro government during the Second Agrarian Reform Law in 1963. The jury decided to impose compensation for damages and damages to the owners of the lands of US $ 9950 million, by each entity. This translates into the total US $ 29,850 million compensation. “This is a great victory not only for our client, but also for the Cuban American community In general, whose assets were unduly confiscated and exploited by US companies in collaboration with the Cuban communist dictatorship. We are proud to have contributed to justice under A law that had never been proven to a jury”, Said Echevarría's lawyer, Andrés Rivero. The demand for the Expedia group began in 2020, with the accusations – in addition to Echevarría – Mario del Valle, Enrique Falla and Angelo Pou for the expropriation of their properties in Cuba. In the first presentations it was dismissed by the federal judge of Miami, Robert N. Sco. Echevarría continued his claim, which managed to consolidate in 2023, and obtained the historical failure last Friday, April 18. During the process, An Expedia employee testified that the company did not ask the Cuban government of any documentation On the property of the lands where the hotels were built in Cayo Coco, they did not analyze or took into account the Helms-Burton law when offering reservation services. A Expedia employee testified that the company did not ask the Cuban Government of any documentation of the expropriated lands to EchevarríaPágina Official/Expedia.com.arHelms-Burton regulations was approved in 1996 during Bill Clinton administration and allows to demand from foreign companies to traffle with properties confiscated in Cuba. Joe Biden's management had suspended Title III of the law, but when Trump assumed, they gave the clause validity again. Donald Trump restored Title III of the Helms-Burton Law, which the Biden Administration had suspended Freepikbajo this law has already filed 45 demands, with six extrajudicial agreements. The Expedia Group, one of the world's biggest travel platforms, can still appeal the ruling and take it to a top court.