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Judi Lynn

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1. According the the NY Times article, 4 yrs after the revolution, Fidel Castro still sought peace.
Mon Apr 10, 2023, 11:19 PM
Apr 2023

This, and other murders, were not "accidental." Two shots into the neck of that young Cuban sentry weren't accidental. Furthermore, it appears he wasn't standing far from them. Next, from the article:

The Havana radio said the sentry had been “killed by the Yankee troops from the naval base.”
The marines have sentry boxes on the perimeter of the base. Cuban troops are posted roughly paralleling those of the marines.

Clearly the US Americans, in their sentry stations, on Cuban soil, for which they were paying $2,000.00 per year since 1905, the same rate they decided to pay when they took the base, wouldn't have had a lot of trouble lining up their shots to kill the Cuban guard right on the other side of the fence.

Cuba never cashed the lease checks after the revolution, always maintaining the base was taken by force, and is illegal. There is no agreement to accept Guantanamo US Naval Base.

I never knew the US military was "brushing back" the Cuban sentries around the Naval base by murdering them, as if they had no right to patrol their own country's property.

So damned sad.

Thank you.

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