Considering that the State dept spent...spent..$80 million for an embassy in that sh_thole called Afghanistan that was never built should make everyone look at this through jaded glasses.
But...the filthy saudis are gearing up to build a $100 mil barracks there once we back out that’s going to rival the one built in Paki-stan.
In the 1990s, the State Department let a proposal for the refurbishing of the old US Embassy on the Malecon, on Havana’s Gulf coast. A California-based construction won the contract for $21,000,000. The project took several years and it was complicated by the security requirements. The Cuban laborers couldn’t work above the second floor. Only American workers were permitted above and then only under the watchful eyes of the Sea Bees. The building had to be certified by State and CIA security officers as being bug free. The Seabees developed a good personal relationship with the Cuban laborers and before long, big boxes of Cohibas found their way to the Seabee House for redistribution. A box of 25 real Cohibas cost us US $25. My brothers-in-law were sad when I got transferred back to CONUS.