Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the semester began, I've been taking a kind of informal poll. First I ask people if they've ever heard of Guantanamo Bay. If they say yes, I ask them where it is. If they know it's in Cuba, I ask them who controls it. And so far I've had only two or three correct answers to this last question...
...fact, the large harbor and surrounding land known as Guantanamo Bay has been a U.S. possession since 1899. One of the best harbors in the Caribbean came under the Stars and Stripes after the Spanish-American War. As far as I've been able to find out, the treaty concerning the port is bilateral in only the most abstract sense. One version I've heard is that it's a treaty "in perpetuity," or until both sides shall agree to a fundamental change. Castro says he wants the Navy to leave, and it's not going. The United States...
...training and recreation. Cuban workers performed the thousands of tasks needed to support a naval base, and American sailors spent many a wild night in Guantanamo City. Next to Havana itself this was probably the most economically dynamic area of Cuba, especially during wartime. Here, and in Subic Bay and Manila in the Philippines, the United States experienced its first and only taste of direct imperialism...
...20th century American history or gov course will give you an analysis of why the Cuban revolution occurred, and doubtless a professor will tell you that Guantanamo Bay played some sort of role. Castro, at any rate, used it with great effect. In the mid-60s he halted the employment of Cuban workers at the base. At the same time he accused the Americans of "stealing" Cuban water through the pipeline from the mountains which had served the base since the turn of the century. In response, the Navy severed the pipeline, engineered a 'waterlift' of freshwater tankers...
...HARD TO enumerate the benefits resulting from U.S. possession of Guantanamo Bay. The more interesting stance to consider is that of the Cubans'. One would think that they hate our presence there, and are kicking up a continual fuss over it in international forums. In fact, however, they have done very little of this since the first years of Communist control...