Guantanamo? A relic from the Spanish/American War (1898)?

Question

How'd we get there anyway?

Answer 1

Guantanamo was part of the territories together with Cuba and the Philippines when Spain was defeated by the US during the American-Spanish War in 1898. Specifically, Guantanamo was an American territory even when Cuba gained independence. Thus, the US has historic right over the said territory through cession and occupation.

Answer 2

The United States assumed territorial control over Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty, which granted the United States a perpetual lease of the area. The current Cuban government considers the U.S. presence in Guantánamo illegal, arguing that the Cuban-American Treaty violates Article 52 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which declares a treaty void if its conclusion has been procured by the threat or use of force in violation of international law.[1] However, Article 4 of the same document states that Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties shall not be retroactively applied to any treaties made before itself.[2]

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 U.S. gold coins per year, to the 1934 equivalent value of $4,085 in U.S. dollars, and made the lease permanent unless both governments agreed to break it or the U.S. abandoned the base property.[1] Since the Cuban Revolution the government under Fidel Castro has cashed only one of the rent checks from the US government, and only because of "confusion" in the heady early days of the leftist revolution. The remaining uncashed checks made out to "Treasurer General of the Republic" (A position that has ceased to exist after the revolution) are kept in Castro's office stuffed into a desk drawer.[4] The United States argues that the cashing of the single check signifies Havana's ratification of the lease — and that ratification by the new government renders moot any questions about violations of sovereignty and illegal military occupation.

Answer 3

Hey its the same as the UNITED STATES, a relic from the Revolution (1774 - 1777). SO you think we should give everything back to the British first and then the French and so on and so on? Get a clue buddy boy !