In its op-ed pages today, the Wall Street Journal makes mention of Fidel Castro selling a Cuban rum concern to a French company for cold hard francs. The distiller was apparently expropriated by Castro way back when, so there presumably are rightful owners who had no say in the sale.
Castro will in fact die one of these days, and it's a safe bet that political and economic liberalism will take over in Cuba. Exiled Cubans will want their stolen property back, and the Cubans in Cuba will probably allow it, since the exiled folk would then move back and bring cold hard dollars with them.
The French company can not claim to be misled about the sale of the rum company, and the original owner will have an easy time in court voiding the sale and recovering the losses. And I wouldn't feel the least bit bad when it happens - buying things from Castro is an act of despicable opportunism. Sent wirelessly from my Blackberry.
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