The Cuban Democracy Act 1992, A Case of Extraterritorial Application of U.S.

Almost unnoticed amid the final stages of the 1992 Presidential Campaign and with then-Candidate Clinton’s support, U.S. Congress passed H.R. 5323, the “Cuban Democracy Act (CDA) of 1992”, also called “Torricelli Law” after its sponsor. Throughout the world and especially in the Western Hemisphere, the law provoked an enormous outcry once it was enacted. Many of the protests focus on the inappropriateness of the extraterritorial nature of the law’s enforcement…[more]