Naval Station Guantanamo Bay: Difference between revisions
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| title=Treaty Between the United States of America and Cuba | | title=Treaty Between the United States of America and Cuba | ||
| date= | | date=May 29, 1934 | ||
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The treaty allows the USA to use it as a Naval Base and Coaling Station, in return for rent of $4,000 per year. | The treaty allows the USA to use it as a Naval Base and Coaling Station, in return for rent of $4,000 per year. When Fidel Castro took power, fifty years ago, to show its opposition to the treaty, the Cuban Government stopped cashing the USA's rent checks. | ||
When Fidel Castro took power, fifty years ago, to show its opposition to the treaty, the Cuban Government stopped cashing the USA's rent checks. | |||
===The internment of refugees=== | ===The internment of refugees=== | ||
During the later decades of the 20th Century the USA used the base to intern | During the later decades of the 20th Century the USA used the base to intern refugees from Cuba, [[Haiti]] and the [[Dominican Republic]]. Tens of thousands of migrants spent years interned at the base. The base is still, occasionally, used to intern refugees. | ||
=== | ===Internment camp under George W. Bush Administration=== | ||
On January 11th, 2002 the USA opened the [[Camp X-Ray]], the first of several camps in the complex of [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s that hold captives the USA considers | On January 11th, 2002 the USA opened the [[Camp X-Ray]], the first of several camps in the complex of [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s that hold captives the USA considers [[enemy combatant]]s in the [[war on terror]].<ref name=WashingtonPost20060712> | ||
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|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100094.html | |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100094.html | ||
|title=U.S. Shifts Policy on Geneva Conventions Bowing to Justices, Administration Says It Will Apply Treaties to Terror Suspects | |title=U.S. Shifts Policy on Geneva Conventions Bowing to Justices, Administration Says It Will Apply Treaties to Terror Suspects | ||
|date=2006-07-12 | |date=2006-07-12 | ||
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Revision as of 19:14, 21 November 2008
The United States is entitled, by treaty, to maintain Naval Base Guantanamo Bay on a 20 square kilometer parcel of land on the Southern coast of Cuba.
History
The United Statest seized Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain, during the Spanish American War.
Treaty
When the USA allowed Cuba to become independent they signed a treaty with the new Government giving it a lease on the site.[1][2] The treaty allows the USA to use it as a Naval Base and Coaling Station, in return for rent of $4,000 per year. When Fidel Castro took power, fifty years ago, to show its opposition to the treaty, the Cuban Government stopped cashing the USA's rent checks.
The internment of refugees
During the later decades of the 20th Century the USA used the base to intern refugees from Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Tens of thousands of migrants spent years interned at the base. The base is still, occasionally, used to intern refugees.
Internment camp under George W. Bush Administration
On January 11th, 2002 the USA opened the Camp X-Ray, the first of several camps in the complex of Guantanamo Bay detention camps that hold captives the USA considers enemy combatants in the war on terror.[3]
References
- ↑ Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations. The Avalon project, Yale Law School (February 23, 1903). Retrieved on 2007-0.
- ↑ . The treaty was updated in 1934. Treaty Between the United States of America and Cuba. The Avalon project, Yale Law School (May 29, 1934). Retrieved on 2007-06-20.
- ↑ U.S. Shifts Policy on Geneva Conventions Bowing to Justices, Administration Says It Will Apply Treaties to Terror Suspects A01. Washington Post (2006-07-12).