Obama orders to close Guantanamo Bay

Just read the news that president elect Barack Obama has order Guantanamo Bay Prison closed. Does that mean that US will withdraw from Cuba? Or even possibly early terminate the lease agreement between the 2 countries.

Interesting facts: Cuba has only cashed one check paid by the US for the usage of the land in Guantamo Bay. Does consideration in a ongoing legal relationship require just accepting one payment? Does that sole payment validates 30 years of lease agreement? Hmm...I think Castro is a numbnut!

In 1986, Guantanamo became host to Cuba's first and only McDonald's restaurant, as well as a Subway.[23] These fast food restaurants are on base, and not accessible to Cubans. It has been reported that prisoners cooperating with interrogations have been rewarded with Happy Meals from the McDonald's located on the mainside of the base.[24]
In 2003, Guantanamo opened a combined KFC & A&W restaurants at the bowling alley and a Pizza Hut Express at the Wind Jammer Restaurant[citation needed]. All the restaurants on the installation are franchises owned and operated by the Department of the Navy.[25] All proceeds from these restaurants are used to support morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) activities for service personnel and their families[citation needed].

During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. fleet attacking Santiago retreated to Guantánamo's excellent harbor to ride out the summer hurricane season of 1898. The Marines landed with naval support, requiring Cuban scouts to push off Spanish resistance that increased as they moved inland. This area became the location of U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, which covers about 45 square miles (116 km²) and is sometimes abbreviated as GTMO or "Gitmo".

By the war's end, the U.S. government had obtained control of all of Cuba from Spain. A perpetual lease for the area around Guantánamo Bay was offered February 23, 1903, from Tomás Estrada Palma, an American citizen, who became the first President of Cuba. The Cuban-American Treaty gave, among other things, the Republic of Cuba ultimate sovereignty over Guantánamo Bay while granting the United States "complete jurisdiction and control" of the area for coaling and naval stations.

A 1934 treaty reaffirming the lease granted Cuba and her trading partners free access through the bay, modified the lease payment from $2,000 in U.S. gold coins per year, to the 1934 equivalent value of $3,086.36 in U.S. dollars, and made the lease permanent unless both governments agreed to break it or the U.S. abandoned the base property. Since the Cuban Revolution, the government under Fidel Castro has cashed only one of the rent checks from the US government. The Cuban government maintains this was only done because of "confusion" in the heady early days of the leftist revolution, while the US government maintains that the cashing constitutes an official validation of the treaty. The remaining uncashed checks made out to "Treasurer General of the Republic" (A position that has ceased to exist after the revolution) are kept in Castro's office stuffed into a desk drawer.[5]