Quick Question

[enigma2517]

Ok, so the U.S. has all of these political prisoners and POWs from the Middle East that they are holding in Guantanamo Bay for interrogation.

Guantanamo Bay is located in Cuba is it not?

If it is, why would Castro allow it this to happen? I don't see him as anything much more than a benevolent despot but at the same time I still know he champions human rights and the anti-imperialism cause a bit more than that.

Whats the deal? Is it some deal the two governments worked out between one another?

[viva le revolution]

Good question! I am also curious about that too.

[More Fire for the People]

Guantanamo Bay is the legal property of the United States and I would assume Cuba doesn't kick them out because of fear.

Cuba refuses to accept the payments received for the use of Guantanamo Bay.

[patria grande]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2005, 08:39 PM
Ok, so the U.S. has all of these political prisoners and POWs from the Middle East that they are holding in Guantanamo Bay for interrogation.

Guantanamo Bay is located in Cuba is it not?

If it is, why would Castro allow it this to happen? I don't see him as anything much more than a benevolent despot but at the same time I still know he champions human rights and the anti-imperialism cause a bit more than that.

Whats the deal? Is it some deal the two governments worked out between one another?
In 1901, during a U.S occupation of Cuba, the Republic of Cuba was established. Then the U.S forced Cuba to include in its Constitution the rental in PERPETUITY of a piece of its own territory. After Castro took power he refused to accept the payments, but the Americans remained there.

Guantánamo Naval Base is a big humiliation for Cuban people!!!!!!!

Tell me, how this sovereign country is going recover its territory?
Invading Guantánamo? Invading the U.S?

[KrazyRabidSheep]

Quick answer:
Castro isn't stupid.

They'd never win a war with the U.S.

(And Cuba dosen't have the U.S.S.R. to bail them out like when Gamal Abdul Nasser had Egypt take the Suez Canal. . .long complicated story, but was a great political victory over the U.K. and France).

Cuba's best by waiting for an oppourtunity for a political victory to re-take Guantanamo.

The recent "activities" in Guantanamo are a step in the right direction, but the time is not yet right.

Maybe if the world produced protests. Like Tibet.
(Free Tibet! Return Guantanamo!)

[apathy maybe]

Guantánamo Bay is part of Cuba. However, there was a thing signed in the '30s (I think) that said that the USA could have it forever until both sides decided not to.

The USA was on the verge of giving the place back when in 2001 some planes crashed.

Cuba, since the revolution, has refused to cash the cheque which is the rent.

[RedStarOverChina]

The Americans writes a check to Castro for rent each year but Castro didnt cash a single one of them.

[Commie Girl]

A couple of opinions and facts:


US occupation of Guantanamo Bay is illegal, says top lawyer

Despite numerous calls for the return of Guantanamo Bay, the United States still has a Naval base on Cuban soil. At the start of George Bush Senior’s administration the man in charge of the base, US Secretary of the Navy, James H. Webb, wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal in which he said:

“It is reasonable to assume that we will lose our lease on Guantanamo Bay in 1999.”


Source (http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi_article.asp?ArticleID=32)



How the US stole Guantanamo Bay

Even during the Missile Crisis in 1962 the US administration was not prepared to talk about handing back Guantanamo, but was prepared to take the world to the brink of nuclear war. Yet, according to international law, the United States has no right to still be at the base. International law establishes consent as the basis for any legal obligation resulting from an agreement, where is the consent in any of the agreements concerning Guantanamo?

Source (http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi_article.asp?ArticleID=27)

[codyvo]

Yeah, Guantanamo Bay is a fine example of american imperialism, the recent events there, with the flushing of a quran and what not have lead me to believe that the movement to return Guantanamo back to Cuba may be getting stronger each day, and I agree with krazyrabidsheep it would be great to protest for the cause.