Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) is calling on the State Department to revoke the visas of officers and directors of the Spanish hotel company Grupo Sol Melia on grounds that the firm is operating in Cuba on property confiscated from U.S. nationals. Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Grupo Sol Melia has run afoul of a law Helms co-authored in 1996 to punish foreign companies that operate on properties seized by Cuba from their American owners. According to Helms, Grupo Sol Melia “knowing and willfully’’ has been operating on property taken from U.S. nationals who owned an enterprise called Central Santa Lucia. Grupo Sol Melia is the largest hotelier in Cuba.
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