Challenge: Gitmo is Cuba

Goal: Guantanamo Bay returned to Cuba
POD limitations: After the Cuban Missile Crisis
Available time: By the present day
Bonus points: Cuba is a communist state while it happens.
 
The Castro brothers are forced from power during the 1970's/80's. Perhaps a civil war ensues. Once a new, more capitalist or neutralist (think Tito/Ceausescu) regime establishes itself in Havana, the USA attempts to win it over by ceding Guantanamo.
 
I don't see the Castros losing power unless either the Soviets end their subsidy or the interventions in Africa lead to a painful and humiliating defeat.
 
I suppose it is a stretch. Maybe the 10 million ton sugar harvest initiative could fail more dramatically than OTL and discredit collectivization/central planning.
 
Both the US and Cuba have to agree upon the transfer to make it legally binding, so I'm afraid a handover will hinge on either a warming of relations or desperate circumstances troubling the US.
 
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