There is not considered, since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Castro’s government has repeatedly demanded the return of the bay, where the station oldest military that the U.S. has abroad, and only in a country with which Washington has no diplomatic relations. A base will undoubtedly always be a thorn in Cuba, it represents have in your own island aa the ultimate enemy, as North American imperialism is important to note as reported by letter that provides the BBCA valuable that Americans take possession of this enclave on June 10, 1898, four days after they do one of the most significant battles in the war for Cuba’s independence against Spain.
For some historians, the event suggests that the base never became Cuba’s sovereignty, because its control of the hands went straight to the estadounidenses.a Spanish is also the beginning of direct U.S. intervention on the island in a turbulent period of transition. In fact, Americans and Cubans who have signed in Paris on Armistice ending once with the Spanish colonization of Cuba. After the armistice, USA was in an awkward position, I had promised independence to a country now under his control. A stone in the shoe that was resolved in 1901 with the approval of the constitutional amendment Platt, who, among other things, required him to Cuba to sell or rent to Americans any piece of land required for the establishment of naval bases. This amendment was also included in the Cuban Constitution of 1901, despite the general disagreement in the population of the island.
