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This paper discusses the impact of the US Helms-Burton Act from 1996 on Cuba. The author details how the legislation sponsored by US Republicans Senator Jesse Helms and US Representative Dan Burton seeks to punish foreign companies for exploiting property appropriated by Fidel Castro's regime after the 1959 revolution. This paper looks at the economic and political situation in Cuba in the context of the act and outlines its potential effects and the international response.