Exiles Sue Expedia’s Trivago for ‘Trafficking’ in Cuban Property
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Pedestrians walk down a street in Havana.
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A family of Cuban exiles sued a unit of Expedia Group Inc. for compensation over a hotel property confiscated when Fidel Castro took power, in the latest of several lawsuits filed since Donald Trump upended a quarter-century of U.S. presidential practice.
The Mata family of Miami alleges that the Expedia subsidiary, Trivago GmbH, serves as an online-booking platform for its former family-controlled hotel in Cienfuegos, the Hotel San Carlos. Trivago has been earning commissions, fees and other remuneration from business dealings involving the San Carlos, according to the complaint. The family is suing over “unlawful trafficking in their property and for just compensation for themselves and a class of similarly situated persons.”