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...southeastern tip of Cuba, it is the only U.S base located in a communist country. The 45-square-mile site was originally used as a coaling station for U.S. Navy ships, under a lease drawn up in 1903. U.S. possession of Guantánamo was reaffirmed under former Cuban president Batista in 1934 with a provision that the lease could not be terminated without mutual consent - a provision that was challenged to no avail by Fidel Castro following the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The denial of his request to return the land to Cuba by President Eisenhower paved...
...Despite Cuban disdain for the base, it received some international praise and recognition in the early 1990s when it became a vital haven for Haitian refugees fleeing the violent coup that ravaged their country. However, these glory days have been outshone by its current role as a detention center. Since early 2002, the beginning of the U.S.-led War on Terror, the base has been used to house those suspected of terrorist activity or of having ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban...
...military tribunals in place of federal courts to try the detainees, and justified the use of some forms of physical coercion (or, as critics call it, torture) during interrogations. The physical treatment and legal contortions sparked international outcry from the United Nations, human rights organizations and the Cuban government, which complained that the territory was being used as a "concentration camp". A U.S. Supreme Court ruling later that year blocked the tribunals and allowed prisoners to petition for habeas corpus in a federal court...
...sure that your generous assistance has made this one of the most effective transitions in the history of our Republic." He would find himself calling on the former President both when he needed some public cover after the Bay of Pigs and when he needed private guidance for the Cuban missile crisis...
...fear] is out of context. To instigate fear, they have to exaggerate something that’s really not there,” Scott H. Reed ’12 said. But Velo-Arias shared his firsthand observation of fear tactics. “One of the reasons why Cuban Americans generally vote Republican is there’s a fear of big government and fear of change,” he said. “That’s something they played on a lot back home in Miami to the Cuban American community...