A book about Cuban property owners at Nicolás Gutiérrez’s home in Miami, April 20, 2026. With Cuba in dire economic crisis, people whose properties were seized by its Communist government say it’s time to resolve thorny compensation claims. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES Teo A. Babún, Jr., has fond memories of the large blue and white corner house in Santiago de Cuba where his grandmother, a wealthy matriarch in prerevolut…
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The 'NYT' interviews a descendant of a family of Santiago industrialists who lost a railroad, a sawmill, a shipyard, a cement factory and a farm, valued at about $900 million