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 M¢25  Funded By Mahalo ? |  May 27, 2009 10:01 PM

How is it that Guantanamo Bay is part of the United States and not part of Cuba?

Does the US own a section of Cuba? how did this come about?
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May 28, 2009 12:11 AM
The Cuban-American treaty of 1903 gave the U.S. a perpetual lease on Guantanamo Bay. The treaty was signed as part of the Platt amendment which stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba since the Spanish-American War.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban-American_Treaty



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June 01, 2009 12:19 AM - New Source
More info in this article:

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5072

At the end of the day, it's not part of the US, and the treaty under which it is "leased" is a hangover from more colonial times, when big powers could do things like that.

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