How long has the U.S. owned Cuba?

Question

My teacher said it was 45 years (1962) but I read it was somewhere it was more like 60?

Answer 1

The USA doesn't own Cuba - In fact Cuba is the hardest communist country left.

They do have rights to use the area around Guantanamo Bay, but that's not ownership

Answer 2

Your teacher is wrong.

Guantanamo Bay Lease.

In December 1903, the United States leased the 45 square miles of land and water for use as a coaling station. A treaty reaffirmed the lease in 1934 granting Cuba and her trading partners free access through the bay, payment of $2,000 in gold per year, equating to $4,085 today, and a requirement that both the U.S. and Cuba must mutually consent to terminate the lease.
U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay is the oldest U.S. base overseas and the only one in a Communist country. The U.S. Navy has had a presence at Guantánamo Bay Cuba since 1903. Located on the southeast corner of Cuba, in the Oriente Province, the base is about 400 air miles from Miami, Florida.

Answer 3

Well over one hundreds years after the death of Fidel Castro in 2010.
Cuba was admitted into the union on Feb 20 2012. Since then the people of Cuba has embraced a far greater freedom enjoyed by most Americans.

Complete health and dental. Every house hold with at least two Asian make car, one plasma TV in the living room and a pair of chicken and a duck.

Answer 4

~Cuba became independent on May 20, 1902, but celebrates its Independence day on October 10 (the first declaration of Cuban independence) and/or January 1 (the triumph of the revolution). The US took over Cuba as a Trustee in 1898 at the conclusion of the Spanish-American war, but Teddy Roosevelt succeeded William McKinley as president and accelerated Cuban freedom. Under the terms of independence, the US retained the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and from 1906 to 1908 the US occupied Cuba. US intervention continued in varying degrees until Fidel Castro won his revolution in 1959.

The US does not "own" Guantanamo Bay, but does have a lease in perpetuity there. Illegal by today's standards and Treaties signed (non-retroactively) later, T R "negotiated" that lease at gunpoint as part of the grant of independence from the US in 1902.

If your teacher is saying the US "owns" Cuba, perhaps he wants you to do some reading on the subject. If not, he is a fool. If he is talking about Gitmo, he is wrong, both as to the time involved and as to the nature of the US tennancy there.

Answer 5

The US does not own Cuba. The US doesn't even have relations with Cuba.

Cuba did belong to the Spanish at one point for nearly four-hundred years.

The US did try to annex Cuba during the Civil War, but failed in its attempts.

"Theodore Roosevelt, who had fought in the Spanish-American War and had some sympathies with the independence movement, succeeded McKinley as President of the United States in 1901 and abandoned the 20-year treaty proposal. Instead, the Republic of Cuba gained formal independence on 20 May 1902, with the independence leader Tomás Estrada Palma becoming the country’s first president. Under the new Cuban constitution, however, the U.S. retained the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and to supervise its finances and foreign relations. Under the Platt Amendment, Cuba also agreed to lease to the U.S. the naval base at Guantánamo Bay. Cuba today does not celebrate May 20 as their date of independence, but instead October 10, as the first declaration of independence and the day Castro and his army entered Havana, January 1, 1959, as 'the triumph of the revolution.'"

Are you thinking of Puerto Rico being a US commonwealth territory?

Answer 6

The US has never owned Cuba - but if you mean own like the US owns Mexico or it owns Canada then I would say from the end of the Spansih American War, 1898, to the Communist takeover, 1959.

While they were an independent nation they were essentially our pawns in the way that most of Central America (and hell lots of S. America) was essentially ours under the Monroe Doctrine (which means they are more ours than they were of the other white people in Europe who were also busy with there other colonies)

Answer 7

Your teacher needs to check the facts. We have never owned Cuba.

Answer 8

The U.S leased the land around Guantanamo Bay in 1903, that's the only form of ownership the U.S has in Cuba.

Answer 9

The U.S never owned Cuba. We gave them their independence during the Spanish-American War but that's about it...

Answer 10

Cuba was a Spanish territory. Puerto Rico has been sucking the life out of the USA for decades though, maybe that is what she meant.