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Guantanamo Bay (also known as Gitmo or GTMO) is one of the best known US Navy bases worldwide, located in South-Eastern Cuba, near the Cuban city of Guantánamo. While it achieved its infamy due its the detention and prison facilities, it is also the focal point of a decades-old dispute between the United States and Cuba which has been raging since 1959.

The origins of this dispute can be traced back to the early 1900s, when the US and Cuba signed several agreements, which allowed the US to lease the Cuban territory of Guantanamo Bay for constructing a naval station. But after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the new Cuban leadership under Castro demanded that the US leaves the area - which the US refused. In this video, we are taking a closer look at this issue: How did the US get Guantanamo Bay? Why is the lease agreement so controversial? And what is the deal with the rent that the US continues to pay to Cuba, despite Cuba refusing to accept it?

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Timestamps:

0:00​ Introduction
2:27 History
7:57 Guantanamo Bay conflict today
10:17 Why does Cuba refuse the US' rent payments?
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Sources:

Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations; February 23, 1903.

Lease to the United States by the Government of Cuba of Certain Areas of Land and Water for Naval or Coaling Stations in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda; July 2, 1903.

Treaty Between the United States of America and Cuba; May 29, 1934.

Ada Ferrer (2021) Cuba: An American History. Sribner.

Jonathan M. Hansen (2011) Guantánamo: An American History. Hill and Wang.
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