Was Guantanamo Bay established pre-Cuban Missle Crisis or post-Cuban Missle Crisis? If pre...How does America maintain presence in Cuba?
2007-12-07 08:12:41 · 10 answers · asked by alva000 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
We established a lease in 1903 with them that can not be broken unless we fail to pay the lease payment which we have not done. Castro however has cashed only one of the checks.
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. 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
2007-12-07 08:24:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Monroe doctrine which in trouble-free English says the Americas belong to the u . s . and all of us else continues to be out may well be a reason. The Cubans have been compelled to sign a perpetual hire for Guantanamo after the Spanish American conflict and pay a token quantity of money. Castro refuses to settle for. it somewhat is a legacy of the american empire. The "terrorists" detainees without quotes or despite they're reported as would be tortured there and be held with none rights. with the aid of fact they do no longer look to be on American soil the militia can do what ever they sense is had to receive advice to locate different terrorists and learn their SOP. it is how I are conscious of it. maybe we've an authority accessible that would positioned all of it mutually for us.
2016-10-10 11:58:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We leased it after the Spanish-American War. this was prior to not only the Cuban Missile Crisis, but the Cuban Revolution. The current Cuban government says we are illegally occupying the area, but smartly has not taken any action to try to evict us.
2007-12-07 08:21:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There shouldn't be. It was established by lease before the embargo. The US has violated the lease by building a prison there. We are like bad tenants that won't leave and no court will evict the US. Cuba is not strong enough to evict us either.
2007-12-07 08:41:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guantanamo Bay is an American military base. We have them all over the world. It is, by extension, American soil.
2007-12-07 08:19:10 · answer #5 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Back around the time of the Spanish-American wear, the US obtained a lease to that portion of Cuba, and has maintained it ever since.
2007-12-07 08:15:50 · answer #6 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Guantanamo was created long before the missile crisis.
2007-12-07 08:21:41 · answer #7 · answered by MY NAME MICHELLE I HATE AMERICA 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is called a lease signed in 1899
2007-12-07 08:24:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
come on you dont know? are you an American? Americans take what is necessary to control the world. this has to be done to ensure that The Super Power stays #1!!!
pre/ post anything doesnt matter. its ours.
2007-12-07 08:19:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
because we can ! guess they do not teach you much in public school.
2007-12-07 08:56:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋