How does the US Government use Guantanamo Bay in Cuba when Cuba and the US are political 'enemies'?

Question

I should explain I'm a Brit, not an American, so please don't assume I am and tell me I should know the answer!!

Answer 1

I hope the answers given by the Americans on here , aren't representative of the views of all Americans. There's got to be SOME Americans who are good guys.
As previously mentioned by others, only more eloquently, America invaded and 'stole' this bay about 100 hundred years ago, as it was strategically sited for access to the whole of the Caribbean. (It has carried out this strategy many times since, all over the world). To make it look legal, the US sends Cuba a 'rental cheque' every year, which Cuba has never cashed.
Effectively, the US are squatters in Cuba, they have no linternationally recognised legal right to be there.

Answer 2

Guantanamo Bay has been a US depending on condition that 1898. It formally became sanctioned by utilizing a treaty in 1903 after the Spanish American conflict. the present authorities perspectives it as an unlawful depending because they say that the unique treaty became signed lower than duress (they are probable proper, yet that would not somewhat count number in international kinfolk.) it continues to be there because the U. S. needs to have a base there and Cuba does no longer opt to impact a capturing conflict with a good larger capacity. So that is going to stay until eventually the U. S. is compelled to grant it up by utilizing a a lot wider area of the international. maximum in all probability they are going to sometime after Castro dies.

Answer 3

I don't know all the details but america made cuba sign a deal when it was producing it's constitution (1923?) that allowed america use of guantanamo until both America and Cuba decide america should leave, America hasn't yet chosen to leave.
Cuba recently tried to have the deal overturned as America used the threat of force if Cuba wouldn't sign it. Unfortunately the treaty which cuba wanted to repeal it under was made after the deal and so it still stands.

Answer 4

The US government "leases" the area from Cuba, which means that we use the area but do not claim ownership. This is known as a hostile tenancy in property law. The law states that after a certain number of years, a tenant will gain ownership of the land through hostile tenancy. The policy of the State department has been to stress that we do not seek proprietary ownership, but will return the property at such a date when it is no longer necessary to ensure safety and security for the United States. Cuba claims that a lease enforced through force is illegal under international treatises signed by the US. No trial has been brought before the international court, but even if one were, the US has ignored its rulings before.

Answer 5

Because Cuba and the United States were more or less allies after the Spanish-American war until the Communists took it over. The base was put there before that point and the treaty that was in place allows us to keep it there.

Answer 6

I just asked my dad this exact question yesterday!!!!

During the Spanish-American war of 1898, the US won a small chunk of space on the island of Cuba, which is still ours today!

Answer 7

I live in america and I asked my world history teacher the same thing.Apperently,it's only certain parts of cuba that are amreicas enemies.

Answer 8

The US took it during the Spanish American war over 100 years ago, and has refused to give it back.

Answer 9

They say politics makes strange bedfellows so, ... er ... how shall I put this ... we have an analogy here for " A House Of Joy ".

Answer 10

because we took it over, just like the US we took that over and soon we will take over all of cuba once fidel dies...... it will be awesome beach resorts all over the place