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CUBA DEMANDS RETURN OF GUANTANAMO, END OF US TV BROADCASTS IN RETURN FOR DIPLOMACY
Breitbart.com ^ | July 1, 2015 | Frances Martel

Posted on 07/02/2015 1:50:22 PM PDT by Will88

While President Obama described the embassy as “not merely symbolic” and a move representing the liberation of the American people from “the past” in a speech this morning, the Cuban government issued a statement refusing to reestablish full diplomatic relations with the United States until America gifted the territory of Guantánamo Bay to Cuba and ceased broadcasting radio and television news reports into the island, which constitute the only way many Cubans have of receiving trustworthy international news.

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TOPICS: Canada; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; broadcasts; canada; cuba; cubadeal; diplomacy; diplomaticrelations; election2016; freespeech; gitmo; gtmo; guantanamo; guantanamobay; mexico; sanctions; tedcruz; texas; usn
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To: Will88

How about we demand the return of Cuba as a US territory under the terms of the Spanish American war?


41 posted on 07/02/2015 2:18:39 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: pabianice
Naval Base Guantanamo is US property. Obama cannot “give” it to anyone

Does the US own the land, or is it a long term lease? I thought it was a lease, but am not certain.

42 posted on 07/02/2015 2:18:54 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Crazieman
Obama: Hot damn! Just what I wanted!

Obama's never met a commie he didn't like. Since day ONE (of his pResidency)I thought the reason Obama's been against Gitmo was to give it back to Castro in the first place.

43 posted on 07/02/2015 2:21:45 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: Will88

I believe it is leased because I read a story where Castro never cashed any of the checks and keeps them in a pile.


44 posted on 07/02/2015 2:22:56 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: Will88
and that the Cuban people be compensated for human and economic damage provoked by United States policies.

From comment #30. Unreal, besides Gitmo and the end of US TV and radio broadcasts, Cuba wants compensation, money and stuff, for the economic damage caused by US policies, I guess for almost 60 years.

It's insane that such discussions are even taking place. And Obama looks like a fool once more, offering everything up front and then the tyrants he's negotiating with up the demands and ask for the sun and the moon.

45 posted on 07/02/2015 2:27:30 PM PDT by Will88
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To: LegendHasIt
0bama probably suggested that they demand that stuff in the first place.

That is my thoughts, they did not make any demands that they were told by the white hut to demand. Giving the, camp gitmo cant be "our" idea, it has to be a "compromise" made to start relations.

46 posted on 07/02/2015 2:27:55 PM PDT by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
What about the issue of how Cuba expropriated American owned property in Cuba after the revolution?

Obama will see that those property owners are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

47 posted on 07/02/2015 2:28:47 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: pabianice

Not to be mean, but what’s to stop 0 from giving Gitmo away? The dictator can do anything he pleases.


48 posted on 07/02/2015 2:32:29 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Vigilanteman

BO will cave? Guess who TOLD CUBA TO SAY THIS? BO!!!!! 0dungheap is fast-tracking relations with Cuba in order to facilitate giving Guantanamo BACK to Cuba before he leaves office. THAT IS THE ONLY REASON ODUNGHEAP RESUMED RELATIONS WITH CUBA!


49 posted on 07/02/2015 2:34:22 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Will88

Nice going, Bammy. You dumbass


50 posted on 07/02/2015 2:34:47 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (American Taliban - The Democratic Party)
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To: Will88
ceased broadcasting radio and television news reports into the island,

Such broadcasts are omnidirectional and can't be misdiverted..........

Cuba controls the airwaves by controlling the receiving units in the hands of its citizens.........

In other words, no Dish, no Cable........For those fortunate enough to be able to afford a flat screen TV, all they get are state controlled broadcasts............

51 posted on 07/02/2015 2:34:49 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Will88
Several of us predicted this exact, or somewhat similar end game right from the start. It has been all about Gitmo from day one! And it will out outrage more Latinos in FL when it can't pass — they will demand it and they will be joined in support by all the Gitmo haters in the country. And Hillary, or whomever who most hates Gitmo rides to POTUS.
52 posted on 07/02/2015 2:35:12 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: HarleyLady27
Really???????????????????? Seriously?????????????????????

Cuba is being quite reasonable.

Barry is letting Iran have nuclear warheads. All Cuba is demanding is a strategic U.S. Naval base and media censorship.

53 posted on 07/02/2015 2:35:40 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Will88

Gitmo would be considered a treaty like the Panama Canal giveaway. It would require a 2/3rds approval of the U.S. Senate. At least least it would have back in the days when rules meant something.


54 posted on 07/02/2015 2:37:03 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Will88

"I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me, You think I'm gonna let some commie punk tell me to hand the keys over and walk away"?

55 posted on 07/02/2015 2:43:07 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( NASCAR 2015: "Bootlegger to boot licker"--FReeper Crim)
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To: Will88
I think Gitmo involves a long term lease

I think we own it outright.

56 posted on 07/02/2015 2:50:39 PM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: painter

NOTHING owned by evil white men is TRULY theirs according to the “Won” way of thinking.


57 posted on 07/02/2015 2:53:27 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: pabianice
Naval Base Guantanamo is US property.

In 1903, the new Republic of Cuba leased to the U.S. the Naval Reservation on which the Naval station is now located. The lease was negotiated to implement the Platt Amendment—which passed Congress in March 1901 and was added to the Cuban constitution in May 1902.

Article VII of the Platt Amendment and the appendix to the Cuban constitution require the United States to help maintain the independence of Cuba and the Cuban government to “sell or lease to the United States the lands necessary for coaling or naval stations.”

The 1903 lease, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on Feb. 23, 1903, required us to pay Cuba annual rent of $2,000 a year in gold. The original lease was later abrogated and modified by the Treaty of 1934 between the U.S. and Cuba, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, on May 29, 1934.

The new lease incorporated by reference the 1903 lease terms—except the annual lease payment increased to $4,085—and further stated that “So long as the United States of America shall not abandon the said naval station of Guantanamo or the two governments shall not agree to a modification of its present limits, the station shall continue to have the territorial area that it has now.”

When the communists took over Cuba in 1959, they cashed the check for $4,085, but they have refused to cash subsequent checks.

58 posted on 07/02/2015 2:54:32 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Will88

My counter offer would be that we establish a permanent base for a Marine division on Castro’s luxurious private island.


59 posted on 07/02/2015 2:57:06 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: JimRed
I stand corrected.

I would hope it would take an act of congress to abandon the base.

60 posted on 07/02/2015 3:02:38 PM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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