Originally posted by
[email protected] 20 2005, 01:01 PM
How is Guantanamo Bay under American Control and why does Cuba allow America to use it?
The situation between U.S and Cuba is:
In 1901 Cuba was occupied by U.S forces. In those days the U.S forced Cubans to write a Constitution protecting U.S interests (as in Irak today).
Two important things were included:
1. The Platt Amendment by which the U.S had the right to intervene in Cuban internal and external affairs any time considered appropriate.
2. Cuba was forced to rent in perpetuity a part of its territory: Guantánamo Bay.
After the triumph of the revolution (1959) a new Constitution was written and Cuba ended the rent of Guantánamo, but as they usually do, U.S didn´t respect the decisions of a sovereign country and remainded there until today as occupation forces.