Actually isn't it a lease in perpetuity. Seems to me that the US sends yearly checks to Cuba but since the revolution at least they have never been cashed since Cuba does not recognise the validity of the lease--with good reason.
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--- On Fri, 1/23/09, dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> From: dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Waterboarding etc.
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:55 PM
> On Fri, January 23, 2009 5:38 pm, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > Think things through, people. I know you would be
> coming up with all
> > sorts of excuses if Cuba were involved.
>
> They're not closing the base, just the detention
> facitilies. Here's the
> executive order:
>
> http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/gitmo_final_exec_order.pdf
>
> Guantanamo Bay is a chunk of Cuban territory, wrongfully
> annexed by US
> imperialism. We'll know real change has come to DC when
> the entire
> territory is handed back to the people of Cuba.
>
> -- DRR
>
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