Hello,
Just wondering how it is that American and Cuba hate each other, Americans are not allowed into Cuba etc etc, but the US is allowed to operate Guantanamo Bay in Cuba?
Grateful for any answers...maybe its an obvious question but...
2006-06-23 06:23:19 · 11 answers · asked by Seahorsetamer 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Guantanamo Bay has been a U.S. Naval base on the island of Cuba since the Spanish American War, over 100 years ago. It is U.S. Territory. It is on the island of Cuba, not in the country of Cuba.
2006-06-23 06:27:32 · answer #1 · answered by JAMES O 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We "liberated" Cuba from the Spanish during the Spanish American war in 1897 I believe. After a number of years we granted Cuba Independence, and for a couple of decades they were our allies. It was during this time that we continued our base on Cuba at Guantanamo Bay. The lease of the land is written such that the lease is in perpetuity until both the United States and Cuba agree to terminate it. Well, in the Early 50's the Cuban democracy was overthrown by Castro and his Communist regime, possibly with the assistance of the Soviet Union. Tensions greatly increased between the US and Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and continue today, though at a lesser amount. Of course Cuba would like for us to pull out, but we won't, and with good reason.
2006-06-23 06:35:01 · answer #2 · answered by Oilfield 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been a military base since 1903. The land is on perpetual lease from Cuba to the US since Cuba was granted independence from the US.
2006-06-23 06:28:59 · answer #3 · answered by WBrian_28 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's there before the revolution, and Soviet didn't want to needle the US too much on its backyard, after the cold war, Cuba probably didn't want to REALLY piss off the US since its protector was gone, and the most important one, the base provides certain amount of foreign exchange (dollars) to the cuba economy, and a fair amout of cubians have business relations with the base, as a government that is short of cash, you really don't want to piss off the money resource
2006-06-23 06:32:24 · answer #4 · answered by Jack Wang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's why Cuba and America don't get along because they wont give it up the class Guantanamo bay as American soil when it so obviously isn't its in Cuba for crying out loud
2006-06-23 06:26:40 · answer #5 · answered by michelleramtulla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the bay of pigs invasion the US tried to take over Cuba. After the invasion force was pushed back the US held one piuece of ground. It offers a strategic position for lauching another invasion which now is useless. Now it is just there and considered American soil
2006-06-23 06:29:26 · answer #6 · answered by JFraz_03894 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it rather is on a defense force base we defend in Cuba. If i'm no longer flawed, we've had this base for an extremely long term and it rather is from an settlement until now. Cuba's government did no longer unexpectedly enable us to open up a penal complex on their land interior the final decade or something. they does not try this. yet they could no longer rather avert us from commencing off up something on a base it rather is already our operation.
2016-10-31 08:49:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think once Castro tried to terminate the "lease", but then U.S. paid anyway and he took the money...lol.
Cuba really has no recourse...U.S. can do basically what they want anywhere they want as long as they are the biggest kid in the schoolyard.
What better place for the U.S. to put their concentration camp than on an island that no one here is allowed to go?
2006-06-23 06:42:40 · answer #8 · answered by DaddyBoy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think about it this way...What exactly is Cuba gonna do about it? If they argued and didn't want in there what exactly could they do against us?
2006-06-23 06:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a result of the Spanish-American "war." They don't have a choice.
2006-06-23 06:27:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋