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usedtobedemgurl

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20. They can call it a lease but it does not change the fact we are unwanted.

Reply to Frasier Balzov (Reply #16)

Wed Feb 5, 2025, 02:20 AM

9 hrs ago

Or that Cuba has never cashed our checks as a form of protest.

You can find numerous articles about it, as well as information in history books.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/will-cuba-now-cash-55-years-worth-of-guantanamo-rent-checks/

For more than 50 years, Cuba has refused to cash the checks because it hasn’t recognized the legitimacy of the lease the US entered into with the country in 1901, which the Cuban Constitution says gives the US “complete jurisdiction and control” over Guantanamo. (The US Treasury sends the checks through the Swiss embassy, which represents US interests in Havana.)

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At Guantnamo Bay detention camp, tents go up and troops await detainees [View all] cliffside 12 hrs ago OP

So they're going to "concentrate" various populations in these "camps"? They'll be "interned" there? Prairie Gates 12 hrs ago #1

Hegseth said in the article it was just "temporary transit" until paperwork and travel arrangements are made cliffside 12 hrs ago #5

Theresienstadt was a so-called "transit camp" Prairie Gates 3 hrs ago #23

We are a fallen nation Solly Mack 12 hrs ago #2

Unfortunately agree ... but still have hope. nt cliffside 12 hrs ago #6

We still have to fight. Solly Mack 12 hrs ago #7

Exactly! nt cliffside 12 hrs ago #10

You are. arthritisR_US 9 hrs ago #21

Well if Cuba doesn't challenge this Frasier Balzov 12 hrs ago #3

Not sure what they can/will do. nt cliffside 12 hrs ago #8

The forum is the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Frasier Balzov 11 hrs ago #12

Thanks, unsure if any court order will be followed :( nt cliffside 11 hrs ago #13

What would that do? Polybius 9 hrs ago #17

If the Court rescinds the Guantanamo Bay Lease Frasier Balzov 9 hrs ago #18

No court will do that, the lease is pretty much absolute and doesn't expire unless both sides agree to terminate it Polybius 9 hrs ago #19

Gross Prairie Gates 3 hrs ago #24

Cuba never wanted us there. usedtobedemgurl 10 hrs ago #15

It's definitely a lease, but it's from 1903. Frasier Balzov 9 hrs ago #16

They can call it a lease but it does not change the fact we are unwanted. usedtobedemgurl 9 hrs ago #20

It's the old bullshit about the worst of the worst. Klarkashton 12 hrs ago #4

Yes that was mentioned, supposedly first military plane today operated by the defense department had 9 to 10 migrants .. cliffside 12 hrs ago #9

These psychopaths are worse than barbarians. Initech 12 hrs ago #11

Your country was derived from that. arthritisR_US 9 hrs ago #22

Sweep up the 15 Saudi pilots families Submariner 10 hrs ago #14

The official Trump gulag. He'll probably sell t-shirts and commemorative NFTs. Vinca 3 hrs ago #25

"The worst of the worst" Docreed2003 3 hrs ago #26

My takeaway too Johnny2X2X 3 hrs ago #28

Huge waste of tax dollars. Have to ship in Emile 3 hrs ago #27

If they meet their goal of 1500 detainees a day, will only take 20 years to gather 11 million illegal immigrants dutch777 3 hrs ago #29