West Coast Connection Forum
Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Don Rizzle on January 26, 2005, 01:22:39 PM
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The United States presence at Guantanamo Bay, where the United States rents the base for the amazing sum of $4,000 per annum, (the checks for which, I understand have never been cashed by the Cuban Government).
The presence of United States Forces at the Guantanimo base has been a bone of contention with the communists since the Revolution in 1959.
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all because of the spanish american war
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Cuban Defense = USA
"ARTICLE VII. To enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the Cuban Government will sell or lease to the United States the lands necessary for coaling or naval stations, at certain specified points, to be agreed upon with the President of the United States."
;)
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Cuban Defense = USA
"ARTICLE VII. To enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the Cuban Government will sell or lease to the United States the lands necessary for coaling or naval stations, at certain specified points, to be agreed upon with the President of the United States."
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I assumed the base was put up after the botched bay of pigs invasion