Almost nobody teaches geography anymore. It is pathetic when journalists write about things of which they have little knowledge.
For example, in a Just the News article author Eric J. Lyman writes about Haitians fleeing to the adjacent Dominican Republic; the two countries share the island of Hispaniola. He mistakenly writes:
The border between the two countries represents the only international land border in the Caribbean.
In truth, there is at least one other place in the Caribbean where an international border divides an island. The island is Saint Martin and it is divided between the French and the Dutch. The French part is called Saint-Martin and the Dutch part is Sint Maarten. I've been there, the two get along just fine.
You could also make the argument that the US enclave at Guantanamo Bay is not Cuba, but it is primarily a military base that does not traffic with the host nation.
