Two-thousand dollars per year. That's how much the United States agreed to pay Cuba on Feb. 16, 1898, to indefinitely occupy Guantanamo Bay with a naval base.
OPINION: Happy Birthday, Guantanamo
Although the rent was later upped to $4,085 — the amount Cuba still receives to this day — the U.S. presence on the island never changed. Take a look at some classic pictures of the base, that would house the infamous terrorist torture prison under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.