HAVANA: Online giant Amazon is the latest company to be sued under a US law for profiting from property seized by Cuba's communist government after the 1959 revolution.AdvertisementThe Seattle-based tech giant is accused of profiting from online sales of barbecue charcoal produced on land expropriated by the Cuban government.
"The Castro regime expropriated, took it over and now are producing what is called marabu charcoal on his property and exporting to the United States for sale. And Amazon was selling it on its website," lawyer Santiago Cueto told AFP by phone. The charcoal, produced from the marabu plant, or marabou weed, which is grown in cooperatives across Cuba, has become an increasingly profitable export for the impoverished island.
Gonzalez claims ownership of over 2,000 acres of land in the eastern province of Granma where the marabu plant is grown."That can include the value of the land itself, and the penalty for trafficking that property."
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