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14 April 2004, 02:04

You must be kidding about Cuba being compensated for the base. In accordance with a treaty signed in 1903 and renewed in 1934, the U.S. continues it’s claim that it lawfully leases the Guantanamo Bay site from Cuba for $4,085 a year. The treaty requires the consent of both governments to revoke or change it, but the U.S. will not agree to that. In protest, Cuba has refused to accept the rent payments. Castro returns the check for said money every year, so the U.S. enjoys having a 45-square-mile of Cuban territory for free. And even if Havana accepted the said American payment, as you indicate, how much national education or telephone system could be financed with 4 thousand dollars a year? Get real and stop BSing, man.