@[email protected] to No Stupid QuestionsEnglish • 1 month agoIf the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist?message-square23fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down16
arrow-up184arrow-down1message-squareIf the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist?@[email protected] to No Stupid QuestionsEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-square@dhorklinkEnglish85•edit-21 month agohttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/how-did-the-u-s-get-a-naval-base-in-cuba.html The US took the area by force during the Spanish-American War, and then signed a “lease” with no end date with the Cuban government at the time. I bet every time Cuba says they want to take it back, the US says “Yeah? You and what army?”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/how-did-the-u-s-get-a-naval-base-in-cuba.html
The US took the area by force during the Spanish-American War, and then signed a “lease” with no end date with the Cuban government at the time.
I bet every time Cuba says they want to take it back, the US says “Yeah? You and what army?”