There is no year end to this lease, the lease will first end when US and Cuba both agree on the termination of the lease. according to the Platt Amendment, the lease is indefiant at the cost of 2000 USD a year.
The lease has no stipulated ending date. It will end under any of the following conditions: The US fails to pay the lease, the US abandons the base or finally, when they both agree to end the agreement.
The US has a perpetual lease on the land.
The base is called Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or as it is commonly known, "Gitmo." In February 23, 1903 the US was granted a perpetual lease for the property. Cuba has only cashed one of the checks for the lease since 1934. Cuba claims the lease is invalid and the US maintains that it is a valid agreement.This based is operated by the navy. It is called Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
The US assumed control of Guantanamo Bay in 1903, under the Cuban-American Treaty which grants the US a perpetual lease. The US gained control originally in 1901 under the Platt Amendment, by which the US obtained the right to intervene in Cuba and to lease or buy land for a naval station. It was built in 1898 after the Spanish-American War and became a US Naval base because of its strategic importance. Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp us military operated by Joint Task Force.
In the internal affairs of Cuba, the US has no right to intervene. Regarding the US Naval Base at Guantonamo, as long as the US pays its lease, doesn't abandon the property and doesn't agree to terminate its lease, the Guantanamo will remain under US control.
Guantanamo Bay
The US first seized Guantanamo Bay and established a naval base there in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. In 1903, the US and Cuba signed a lease granting the US permission to use the land as a coaling and naval station. The lease satisfied the Platt Amendment; this amendment stated a naval base at "certain specific points agreed upon by the President of the United States" was needed to "enable the United States to maintain independence of Cuba." The US and Cuba signed a treaty in 1934, granting the US a perpetual lease; private enterprise is not allowed under the treaty. Both the US and Cuba must agree on any termination of the lease, effectively making the land US soil since the US will never agree to give up the property.
After the Spanish/American War of 1898 a Lease Deal between Cuba and the United States was made. In 1903 Cuba allowed the United States to rent Guantanamo Bay, and surrounding areas for the amount of only $2,000 per year. The lease period is forever as long as the U.S. makes the annual payment. Since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. he has refused to cash any of the rent checks. Although Guantanamo Bay is not a territory of the United States. it is a U.S. Military Base and is defended in the same manner as all U.S. Military Bases around the world.
Gitmo
Guantanamo Bay was leased to the US indefinitely for a sum of $6,000 per year to the government of Cuba.
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Guantanamo Bay belonged to the US after the Spanish-American War.