why usa's guantanamo prison was built in cuba? why not in usa? and did this raise problems between usa & cuba?

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Answer 1

To escape judicial oversight on American soil. Since the US has no diplomatic relations with Cuba, it can ignore any Cuban laws or protests.

Guantanamo Bay is held in perpetuity through a lease agreement with a previous Cuban government. The US sends a check to Cuba each year, but Cuba no longer cashes it.

Since Cuba and the US are already hostile toward each other, it's difficult to raise futher problems between the two countries. However, in the aftermath of 9/11, Cuba did not really protest the establishment of the prison.

Answer 2

It was basically done there so that the detainees would not be on US soil and thus subject to US federal and state laws. Only military and geneva convention rules apply (if even those).

I'm sorry, I don't know if it caused problems with Cuba.

"Because the sovereignty of Guantánamo Bay ultimately resides with Cuba, the U.S. government argued unsuccessfully that U.S. courts had no jurisdiction to consider challenges to the legality of the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad in connection with hostilities and incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay. (see Cuban American Bar ***'n, Inc. v. Christopher, 43 F.3d 1412 (11th Cir. 1995)). In 2004, the Supreme Court rejected this argument in the case Rasul v. Bush brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights, with the majority decision and ruled that prisoners in Guantánamo have access to American courts to challenge the legality of their detention, citing the fact that the U.S. has exclusive control over Guantánamo Bay."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detainment_camp

Answer 3

When the US freed Cuba from Spain in 1898, we leased the Guntamano Bay area from them.

Answer 4

I have always wondered that.. Cuba hates the USA and the same in reverse.. ?? Puzzling?

Answer 5

So they could tourture people and say that the US doesnt torture anyone. I guess... because its in CUBA where they tourture people!