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Originally Posted by a5cii
What i dont understand is that cuba is bad, americans cant get stuff from cuba but the government rents guantanamo bay
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The US got that perpetual lease as part of a treaty with an earlier Cuban regime. The post-revolution Cuban government has consistantly maintained that the US presence is illegal as the land was granted under threat of occupation & has pressed to get the US to quit. The British also held that area previously.
They have also declined to cash the annual US rent cheques - one was cashed was in error just after the revolution & the US holds this as full ratification of the earlier treaty by modern Cuba. Castro kept them all in a desk drawer apparently.