Panama City, Panama.- Panamanian lawyer Hadys Gonzalez said on Monday that the Helms-Burton law, which is intended to have effects outside US territory, is inadmissible.

But ‘the worst thing is that other States do not join together to counteract this, they should all agree that it is extraterritorial and violates the sovereignty principle of the States’, the lawyer told Prensa Latina.

She recalled this legal decree has been controversial since its creation in 1996, during William Clinton’s administration.

It infringes the territoriality principle of laws and international law, because a State intends to meddle in the sovereignty of others, through its jurisdictions, something considered totally unacceptable. The Helms-Burton law legally codifies the economic, commercial and financial blockade Washington has maintained against Havana since 1962, while the activation of Title III will allow, from May 2, will allow filing lawsuits in US courts against individuals and companies doing business in Cuba that invest in former American properties nationalized in the island in the wake of the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959.

The predecessors of Donald Trump since Clinton (1993-2001), who signed the Helms-Burton Act, avoided its implementation due to the damage it would also cause to the United States and its allies, including the European Union and Canada.