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Old 22nd Jan 2022, 11:18
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Geezers of Nazareth
 
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Originally Posted by dduxbury310
I believe (from recollections of reading perhaps dodgy books a very long time ago) that when the state of Cuba was under the pre-Castro regime, the US Govt paid a normal mutually agreed annual fee for the use of the American base on Cuba. However, post-1959, Castro refused to accept the fee, which was fine by the Americans. Is this more or less true?
I remember reading about this somewhere, many years ago. If I remember correctly it is something like $1 per year (may have been $100?), and the cheque was handed over from representative to representative at the UN in NY. It was all well-documented, and done on-time (or possibly a day or two early) so that the Cubans could never report that the money had not arrived. The fact that the Cubans had never cashed the cheque was also mentioned. So long as the US continues to pay they are entitled to continue using Gitmo.
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