Guantanmo bay

[RED FIRE]

why is fidel casto allowing Bush to habour he's ''prisoner's of war'' in Cuba.I really don't unerstand this at all.I have now being wondering this for sometime.

[Hampton]

Fidel dosen't own Guantánamo Bay.

The first American casualties of the Spanish-Cuban-American war were two marines killed at Guantánamo on June 11, 1898. A U.S. Marine battalion camped there the day before, marking the first U.S. presence on the bay.

Just about five years later, on February 23, 1903, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba leasing the bay for 2,000 gold coins per year. The agreement was forced on the puppet Cuban government (with an American-citizen for President) through the Platt Amendment, which gave U.S. authorities the right to interfere in Cuban affairs.

On July 2 1906, (just before the 2nd U.S. military intervention, a new lease is signed in Havana for Guantánamo Bay and Bahía Honda, for which the U.S. will pay a meager $2,000 per year.

After Cubans annulled the Platt Amendment in 1934, a new lease was negotiated between the Roosevelt administration and a U.S.-friendly government that included Fulgencio Batista as one of three signatories. Batista emerged as the strong man on the island over the next twenty-five years.

G Bay (http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/funfacts/guantan.htm)

[FistFullOfSteel]

usa always use other countries and people to gain more power.. :angry: