I picked a name off the list at random last night: Fanjul family.
We have deployed the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group to Cuba (approx. $135 million/month operating cost).
The Fanjul family are members of Trump’s Ballroom Donor Coalition - having also contributed to Trump’s 2024 campaign and PAC’s. Their purported $4 billion fortune is based in the sugar industry and, surprisingly, they are prepared, as May 20, 2026, to “rebuild Cuba”. Remarkable!
The Fanjul family had its many sugar mills and land taken by the Cuban government in 1959. The family are in dominating control of sugar in the Western Hemisphere, with control of supply chains, labor, and land across the Caribbean.
Title III of the Helms-Burton Act grants U.S. nationals the right to sue—in U.S. federal court—any person or company that “traffics” in property that was confiscated by the Cuban government after January 1, 1959. That means that, in American courts, Cuba owes the Fanjul’s for what was taken in 1959. Anyone who used what was taken, owes the Fanjul’s in American courts. When the Cuban government falls, their debt to the Fanjul’s will be unpayable - but that is alright, the Fanjul’s have money. They will take Cuban land and other property in exchange and manage the island . . . like a big sugar plantation.
The Thomas Massie interview on Tucker Carlson (the second one) revealed this link: the donors to the ballroom, the “Arc de Trump”, and the renaming of the Kennedy Center are the people running the Trump administration.
Pick any other name off the above Ballroom Donor Coalition list and you are going to find the relationship to U.S. policies currently being implemented, no matter the costs to the rest of us (can we send the bill for the Carrier Strike Group to the Fanjul’s sugar company?).