Stepping up pressure on Cuba, United States President Donald Trump is poised to allow lawsuits against foreign companies that have benefited from Cuba's seizure of American companies after the 1959 revolution, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
The move marks a change in more than two decades of US policy on Cuba.
The 1996 Helms-Burton Act gave Americans the right to sue companies profiting from properties that Cuba confiscated, but every US president since Bill Clinton has suspended the key clause - Title 3 - because of fears of alienating US allies and complicating relations with Cuba.
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