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context: after she spent more than two decades behind bars.
    in 2002 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage after she was accused of using her leading position as a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) official to leak information
  
  Followed by:
  
  On her release from prison, Urbino had ordered Montes should be placed under supervision for five years, with her internet access monitored and a ban from working for governments and contacting foreign agents without permission
  
  Does an espionage conviction count for anything these days? >
  
  
  Does an espionage conviction count for anything these days?
  
  Apparently 80% of a 25 year sentence in federal prison and 5 years of monitored parole. >
  
  She got off pretty light I'd say.  If spy was caught in communist countries they will be tortured and even executed. >
  
  Yeah, I've heard in Cuba there's this ghastly prison camp where they hold people for decades, many of whom were kidnapped overseas without trial and torture them. 
  And just to be extra evil, they somehow tricked the Americans into building and operating it 😱 >
  
  They aren't American citizens. Cuba REGULARLY imprisons its  own citizens for anything it deems critical of the revolution. It's apparent you exercise your free speech regardless of its veracity but in Cuba it can land them behind bars. I see so much naivete about Cuba on reddit. With that said, yes Guantanamo should revert back to just a base. >
  
  
  With that said, yes Guantanamo should revert back to just a base.
  
  I'm astounded the base is still there. Like how are we still leasing part of a country we have an embargo on? It's so weird. Relations between the US and Cuba are just bizarre. >
  
  They are. As a gen x Cuban-American I want the embargo lifted. I appreciated Obama's attempt to start the process. We should restart it.