If the United States and Cuba aren't on the best of terms, how can we have the Guantanamo Bay prison?

Question

Why would Castro allow this since he hates us so much?!?

Answer 1

I think the US has "owned" this land for over a century and has operated there under times of peace with Cuba as well.
Personally, I am ready for this "pi$$ing contest" to end ... Why can't we all just get along? :)

Answer 2

Castro has no choice in the matter. He doesn't have the power to evict the US occupiers from Cuban territory. He *does* refuse to cash the rent checks that the US sends every year.

The US supposedly rents the area from the Cuban government. However, despite attempting to pay rent to Castro, the US does not accept the legitimacy of the Cuban government.

This fuzzy status is what gives the US the ability to behave lawlessly in the region. Supposedly, Cuban courts have jurisdiction over the area, and so any appeal against the criminal behavior of the US government in the region would have to go through the Cuban courts. But the US does not accept the Cuban courts as legitimate, leaving the area a legal black hole.

There are a number of problems with this, such as the fact that the US government has total control of the area, the fact that US courts have jurisdiction over the US government everywhere in the world, the fact that the Bill of Rights restricts the powers of the US government everywhere in the world, that the US if party to treaties that ban human rights abuses, etc. But it has still muzzed things up enough to let the Bush administration effectively get away with any crime that it wants to.

Answer 3

Guantánamo Bay Naval Base at the southeastern end of Cuba(19°54′N 75°9′W / 19.9, -75.15Coordinates: 19°54′N 75°9′W / 19.9, -75.15) has been used by the United States Navy for more than a century, and is the oldest overseas U.S. Navy Base. 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 current Cuban government considers the U.S. presence in Guantánamo to be an illegal occupation of the area, and argues that the Cuban-American Treaty, which established the lease in 1903, now violates article 52 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

Since 2002, 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.

Answer 4

The Guantanamo naval base pre-exists the revolution there. We have a tough military presence there so what can Castro do? It's more than a prison; there wasn't a prison there until we needed a place outside the US to hold people.

It is a bizarre situation.

Answer 5

verify your info. "They" do not hate absolutely everyone. that's the U. S. government that meant to starve the Cuban human beings to dying with the intention to tension Castro out of power and produce the U. S. backed corruption lower back into Cuba. that's the U. S. government that imposed the shuttle ban, so as that they are able to proceed to tension feed you propoganda (which you needless to say so ignorantly have self belief), and you may not see for your self what a ideas-blowing u . s . Cuba is. Cuba does not hate absolutely everyone. that's the U. S. that hates all people.

Answer 6

it was the imperialist government of the USA, forcibly occupied that Guantanamo bay prison with a malafide intention to harbor innocent people in that prison, where there are no civil liberties, no natural justice, by branding them as terrorists. several people were sold by Pakistan's president Musharraf to bush by labeling them as followers of AL qaeda ,and sent them to Guantanamo bay. every day through out the world, several people are missing and surfacing in that prison. Castro, one of the greatest revolutionaries of the century,fighting the giant, hegemonic USA, did not gift it to the usa. it was forcibly occupied.as Iraq was occupied.

Answer 7

We had a treaty with Cuba before it turned Communist. It is a long established precedent that the treaties must be honored. Besides, we had the world on out side to honor the treaty as well as superior fire power

Answer 8

I don't know, but I think Castro is good guy for hating United States.

Answer 9

remember in school,
when this HUGE guy say
"gimme your money" and you say OK.

is pretty much the same

Answer 10

there is no allowing involved my friend.