Summary
Thousands of claims by American citizens and companies for properties nationalized in Cuba are now worth billions. Some Cuban Americans hope the Trump administration helps recover their expropriated assets.
The 1996 Helms-Burton Act directly ties lifting the US embargo to Cuba returning expropriated assets and transitioning to representative democracy. But the likelihood the Cuban government can repay the diaspora is very low, says an expert.
Some experts say the exile-driven claims are more about nostalgia for Cuba before the revolution, when the landowning class held tremendous power over the island.
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