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Cuba demands US gives back Guantanamo Bay

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posted on Feb, 15 2008 @ 12:40 PM
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Cuba demands US gives back Guantanamo Bay


www.news.com.au

CUBA has demanded the US return Guantanamo Bay to the island nation and denounced the "war on terror" prison, where six detainees could face the death penalty.

Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque claimed today that suspects held in the US naval base in the southeastern tip of Cuba have been subjected to torture and face unfair legal treatment.
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posted on Feb, 15 2008 @ 12:40 PM
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Since 1960, a year after it came to power, Fidel Castro's communist government has refused the annual lease payment of 5000 dollars from the United States.


Heh, there are some houses that rent for more then $4,166 a month!

Gotta admit, the US government sure has a good deal on that property, considering it is a 45 square MILE area:

www.globalsecurity.org...


In December 1903, the United States leased the 45 square miles of land and water for use as a coaling station. A treaty reaffirmed the lease in 1934 granting Cuba and her trading partners free access through the bay, payment of $2,000 in gold per year, equating to $4,085 today, and a requirement that both the U.S. and Cuba must mutually consent to terminate the lease.


It would seem to me the Cubans would have more of an economic basis that a torture basis to demand the property back, considering Cuba's record on their own treatments of political dissidents.

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