Even better: Cuban pensioners get tangled up in US red tape

AT THE US naval base at Guantanamo Bay last month the Pentagon marked the retirement of two elderly workers with typical military pageantry. Schoolchildren did a folk dance, there were speeches, a cake and certificates presented by the base commander to the pensioners.

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This was not a typical US Navy retirement party. Harry Henry, 82, and Luis La Rosa, 79, were the last two daily commuters from their homes in Cuba to the US-controlled territory. They started work at Guantanamo as teenagers and, as long-serving US government employees, were entitled to Defence Department pensions.

But their retirement leaves the navy with no way to pay the pensions they and other Cuban workers have earned because of the five-decade US embargo on trade with Cuba.

''Right now there is no established plan to pay these pensions, because of the complication of US law,'' Lieutenant-Commander Christopher Servello said. ''We are working to find a permanent solution.'' The navy will not say how many retired Guantanamo labourers are receiving pensions, or provide a dollar figure.

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Even better: Cuban pensioners get tangled up in US red tape

Even better: Cuban pensioners get tangled up in US red tape

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