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Cuba embargo: except, of course, for the rent check

posted by Zed on September 22 2009 18:40

Though it remains illegal for U.S. citizens to spend money in Cuba, per the terms of the Platt Amendment (re-affirmed in the 1934 Treaty of Relations) the U.S. government writes a $4,085 check to the Cuban government annually to pay the rent on Guantanamo Bay.

Since 1959, Cuba has refused to cash the check. Castro's government cashed the first it received in the confusion of their early days.

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