[2ndDivisionVet]

Wll, then the new democratic Cuban government can take them to Check-N-Go after Castro dies.

[EternalVigilance]

"If we have to wait for the collapse of the (capitalist) system, we will wait," Castro wrote.

Hell will never freeze over, Fidel...as I'm pretty sure you'll be able to report first-hand any day now...

[capt. norm]

Cuba not cashing U.S. Guantanamo rent checks

Maybe they didn't have the proper ID.

[EternalVigilance]

Oh, and Fidel? Say hello to Marx and Lenin, will ya?

[wastedyears]

So let’s stop sending them checks.

[Williams]

"is seen as a Stalinist tyrant by his enemies but is widely admired in the Third World for standing up to the United States, a David-versus-Goliath role he has relished."

Wonder which the reporter admires more: Stalinist tyrant or standing up to the United States?

BTW Castro is not "seen as" a tyrant. I think we can safely place the 50 year rule of a dictator for life in the column under "tyrant".

[shield]

castro now has fatal septicemia and only has days to live.

[GitmoSailor]

I was stationed there in 1961 for 6 weeks!!!!!!.....

[Blackyce]

"If we have to wait for the collapse of the (capitalist) system, we will wait," Castro wrote. Sounds good.

[madison10]

Dear Senor Castro,

I will be most happy to take those checks off your hands. Just sign the back and send them to me soon.

Most obliged,

madison10

[Joe Boucher]

I need to sneak in and get those checks,
Could use the money.
Lots of banks right here would take em.

[paltz]

The base was initially a coaling station for the U.S. Navy to protect the approaches to the Panama Canal.

[fedupjohn]

Your Problem, Not ours. JO

[Pistolshot]

Well, if we stop paying rent, they will have to try to evict us, right?

Then we can settle this hash once and for all.

[Cementjungle]

Good. A penny saved is a penny earned.

[TheBattman]

Question - how exactly did we end up with a base on Cuba, particularly considering the Cold War troubles (Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs, etc...)?

That part of the story was left out of my Public School education (a couple of decades back).

[Dragonspirit]

IIRC, we have a 99 year lease or something?

When that expires, we should turn the land over - to the anti-Castro Cubans! :)

[meyer]

I hope that they’re all stamped “this check void after 90 days”. :-)

[M Kehoe]

Possible, Castro estan muerto.

5.56mm

[Southack]

"The Cuban leader, the last of the major Cold War figures still alive..."

ARGH! Lady Thatcher ain't dead, folks!