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What is the controversy between Cuba and the United States regarding the naval base?

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Jump to Guantanamo Bay during the Spanish–American War - It is the oldest overseas U.S. Naval Base. Since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Cuban .

The United States first seized Guantánamo Bay and established a naval base there in 1898 during the Spanish–American War in the Battle of Guantánamo Bay. In 1903, the United States and Cuba signed a lease granting the United States permission to use the land as a coaling and naval station.

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Answer 2

The controversy between Cuba and the United States regarding the naval base

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• Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is a US naval base and detention camp situated  at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which the US leased for using as a naval base and coaling station in 1903.
• Even after the relations with the country were broken after the Revolution of Cuba, the US kept this base. The Cuban and Haitian immigrants were housed at the base at the turn of the twentieth century before it was declared unconstitutional by the United States  Judge in District Court in the year 1993.
• The Cuban government consistently protested against US presence on the Cuban soil since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, claiming that Cuba was forcibly imposed on it, and called it illegal according to international law.
• Since 2002 the military base has contained Guantánamo Bay Detention Center (GBD) for suspected unlawful combatants/insurgent militants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere during the war on terror. Prisoners' reports of torture and their denial of immunity in accordance to the Geneva Conventions have been globally criticized.