With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff. For the story
behind the story... Oct. 18, 2001. NewsMax.com
Who says there isn't any good news to report? Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is
tossing a temper tantrum over Moscow's decision to close a spy post on his
island prison.
"The United States has relentlessly pressured Russia over the existence
of this facility, despite the fact that the United States itself has maintained
a military base in our territory for over 100 years now, against our people's
will," Castro's regime raged today in Granma, the Communist Party daily,
referring to the U.S. base on Guantanamo.
Last year, the U.S. Congress voted to slow the flow of taxpayer dollars to
Russia unless it closed its Lourdes radar post, the Associated Press reported
today.
Moscow's announcement Wednesday that it would close the base shocked Castro.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin visited in December, he talked of "developing
and modernizing" the post, Granma fretted.
Closure of the Cold War relic poses a "grave threat" to Cuba's
security, the dictatorship claimed.
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