Why does Cuba let us have a naval base at Guantanamo Bay?

Answer 1

Do you know how are hard it is move an unwanted, 789 lbs., guest off of your couch? Cuba is in the same predicament

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay

uantánamo Bay Naval Base at the southeastern end of Cuba (19°54′N 75°9′W) has been used by the United States Navy for more than a century. The United States controls the land on both sides of the southern part of Guantánamo Bay (Bahía de Guantánamo in Spanish) under a lease set up in the wake of the 1898 Spanish-American War. The Cuban government denounces the lease on grounds that article 52 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties voids treaties procured by force or its threatened use.

Since 2001, the naval base has contained a military prison, the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, for persons alleged to be militant combatants captured in Afghanistan and later in Iraq. Prior to 11 July 2006, the U.S. maintained that these detainees are not protected under the Geneva Convention.

Answer 3

Cuba doesn't own Guantanamo Bay. The United States does. It goes back to the Spanish-America War of 1898.

Answer 4

In February 1903, the United States leased 45 square miles of land and water at Guantanamo Bay for use as a coaling (fueling) station. The treaty was finalized and the document was ratified by both governments and signed in Havana in December of that same year.



A 1934 treaty reaffirming the lease granted Cuba and her trading partners free access through the bay, modified the lease payment from $2,000 in gold coins per year, to the 1934 equivalent value of $4,085 U.S. Treasury dollars, and added a requirement that termination of the lease requires the consent of both the U.S. and Cuba governments, or the abandonment of the base property by the U.S.

Answer 5

The U.S. has taken Guantanamo Bay since the U.S. occupied Cuba. The Cuban government has yet to get it back as a part of Cuba. I believe the government is going through all legal matters to have Guantanamo Bay as Cuban territory.

Answer 6

The Guantanamo base is part of a lease signed with Cuba in 1903. It is a very good deal for the US, costing just over $4,000 a year rent. The only way the lease can be terminated is if both Cuba and the US mutually agree to do so.

Answer 7

They don't "let us" have the base. It was part of the Spanish-American War in 1898 that the US retains this part of Cuba. We also "got" Puerto Rico and the Phillipines.
Some people feel it was all just a land-grabbing effort on the part of the US, there wasn't much "war" about it.

Read some US and World history for further details.

Answer 8

It is not exactly like they want a war with the US, and that is what would happen if they tried to remove us from Guantanamo Bay.

Answer 9

I don't think they have much of a choice. The United States is the big kid on the block and Cuba is a weak country.

Answer 10

Not so much "let us have".

Gitmo was established in 1898, at the end of the Spanish-American War.

The current Cuban government hates us being there, but doesn't have the military resources to drive the US out.

Answer 11

I love that place. Gitmo has the best Jerk Chicken on the planet. I am certain that Castro would love to have that property but it is a very important military base for the United States. We wouldn't give it up easily.