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Raul Castro says U.S. must return Guantanamo to Cuba
Cuban president lists demands during speech at Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit in San Jose, Costa Rica
Published On: Jan 28 2015 03:02:46 PM EST Updated On: Jan 29 2015 12:00:35 AM EST
Cuban President Raul Castro said Wednesday that in order to re-establish normal relations, the United States needs to return the Guantanamo Bay land -- where the U.S. Navy runs a base and detention camp.
The U.S. built the military base during the Spanish-American war and established a leasing agreement with Cuba in 1903. It was an important distribution point during World War II without protest. The Cuban government didn't start to complain about the "occupation" until the Cold War.
Now that the base is known worldwide for its global war on terror detainees, Fidel Castro's brother said "normalization" of the relationship with the U.S. will not be possible while "the territory illegally occupied" is not returned.
The 83-year-old Castro told heads of state in San Jose, Costa Rica, for the Latin American & Caribbean States summit that the U.S. also needs to "adequately" compensate Cuba for damages.
He added that the U.S. needs to remove Cuba from the list of states sponsoring terrorism. President Barack Obama's administration is reviewing that. Obama's use of executive power to loosen the embargo with a range of measures that would increase economic ties was not enough for Castro.
He demands that the U.S. lift the half-century trade embargo. But although only the Republican controlled U.S. Congress can do that, Castro suggested otherwise.
Obama "could use with determination his extensive executive powers to substantially modify the implementation of the blockade," he said. "This is something he can do even without Congressional approval."
In return, the Castro regime does not plan on changing its form of government. And if his list of demands isn't met, he said the "diplomatic rapprochement wouldn't make any sense."
Castro and Obama announced Dec. 17 that they would move toward renewing full diplomatic relations by reopening embassies in each others' countries, but after two days of negotiations in Havana last week, the delegations were unable to set a date.
Castro warned that in the U.S. there were "certain forces" that were going to try to derail a process that was just beginning. And he reported that there was some progress during the historic talks.
"It was possible to advance in the recent negotiations, because we treated each other with respect, and as equals," he said during his speech. "Future progress demands that this remains so."
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