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2019
Gonzalez sues Amazon and Fogo Charcoal over Cuban charcoal
Lawsuit filed
In 2019, US citizen Daniel A. Gonzalez filed a lawsuit in a Miami court against Amazon and Fogo Charcoal, alleging that the companies profited from charcoal produced on land in Cuba that had been confiscated from his family. The lawsuit seeks financial compensation. The allegations are presented as claims in the filing and are not described as adjudicated findings.
US citizen Daniel A. Gonzalez sued Amazon and Fogo Charcoal in a Miami court, alleging they profited from charcoal produced on land in Cuba confiscated from his family. The lawsuit seeks financial compensation; the allegations are not presented as adjudicated findings.
Source excerpt
The lawsuit also accuses the Florida company Fogo Charcoal of commercializing the charcoal, produced from branches of marabu bushes and sought after for its relative easiness to light, smoke-free glow and pleasurable grill aroma.
According to a lawsuit lodged Thursday, Amazon sold marabu charcoal extracted from a property in the eastern Granma province that had previously been owned by Gonzalez's grandfather Miguel Gonzalez Rodriguez, who died in 1987.
The lawsuit was lodged in a Miami court by a US citizen.