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KB2VXA > QRM 17.08.08 14:20l 44 Lines 3787 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VE3WBZ > GITMO
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From: KB2VXA@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : QRM@WW
Hi Peter and all,
Rigging and WHAT??? Oh, another twist to get by the Packet Police, hmmm.
(;->) So you're going to fire up HIS engines and move a hole in the
water? That's a nasty thing to do to a Cuban and all this after Ernesto
"Che" Guevera was so nice in starting up Rebel Radio and playing all that
nice music for us. Speaking of radio, maybe you could give a listen to
710 AM and see if that Cuban flamethrower is for real. I read something
published by the CE of WOR that looks like his nose is a bit out of joint
over alledged interference I can't hear here.
For what it's worth (not much) I did a clip job on Wikipedia being I'm
too darn lazy to give a history lesson this morning. Oh to L with the K
count.
The U.S. Guantßnamo Bay Naval Base, sometimes called "GTMO" or "Gitmo", covers 116 km² (about 45 square miles) on the western and eastern banks of the bay. It was established in 1898, when the United States obtained control of Cuba from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War, following the 1898 invasion of Guantßnamo Bay. The U.S. government obtained a 99-year lease that began on February 23, 1903, from Tomßs Estrada Palma, a Cuban-born citizen, who became the first President of Cuba. The newly-formed American protectorate incorporated the Platt Amendment in the Cuban Constitution. The Cuban-American Treaty held, among other things, that the United States, for the purposes of operating coaling and naval stations, has "complete jurisdiction and control" of the Guantßnamo Bay, while the Republic of Cuba is recognized to retain ultimate sovereignty.[3]
After the Cuban Revolution of 1959 which brought Fidel Castro to power, then-President Dwight Eisenhower insisted the status of the base remained unchanged, despite Cuban objections.
A 1934 treaty reaffirming the lease granted Cuba and its trading partners free access through the bay; modified the lease payment from $2,000 in U.S. gold coins per year, to the 1934 equivalent value of $4,085 in U.S. dollars; and made the lease permanent unless both governments agreed to break it, or the U.S. abandoned the base property.[4] Since the Cuban Revolution, the government under Fidel Castro has cashed only one of the rent checks from the U.S. government, and only because of confusion in 1959 in the heady early days of the leftist revolution. The remaining uncashed checks made out to "Treasurer General of the Republic" (a position that ceased to exist after the revolution) are kept in Castro's office stuffed into a desk drawer.[5] The United States argues that the cashing of the single check signifies Havana's ratification of the lease — and that ratification by the new government renders moot any questions about violations of sovereignty and illegal military occupation.[citation needed] It is countered, however, that the 1903 and 1934 lease agreements were imposed on Cuba under duress and are unequal treaties, no longer compatible with modern international law, and voidable ex nunc pursuant to articles 60, 62, and 64 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.[
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