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Nearly a million U.S. citizens visited Cuba for the first time on cruise ships under the Obama administration. But Mickael Behn, the heir of a telecom tycoon, accused the cruise liners of “stealing” his family’s property. He paid lobbyists, politicians and Cuban-American hardliners to pressure the Trump administration. He ultimately got what he wanted when Trump implemented Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, a controversial provision that allowed Behn to sue the cruise ships. Belly of the Beast investigates the shady origins of a lawsuit that could earn one family upwards of $440 million — at the expense of the Cuban people and its nascent private sector.
