Cuba

Cuba Tourism: Facts and Information
Cuba has a fascinating culture and wonderful beaches. The Old World charm and fine beaches makes Cuba a popular tourist destination. Beach tourism is a major tourism in Cuba. Some of the must-know facts and information a tourist needs to be aware of prior to traveling to Cuba are given in this article. Read on…

Cuban Revolution Timeline
Take a look at various revolts that characterized the Cuban Revolution. Read on for the Cuban Revolution Timeline.

Cuba Facts: Interesting Facts About Cuba
Cuba is a growing tourism destination today. Here are some facts and all about Cuba.

Michael Moore Fights Back Over Cuba "Sicko" Visit
Michael Moore skewers Bush in a new response to the government scrutiny of his recent trip to Cuba with ill Ground Zero workers.

Cuba Approves First Therapeutic Vaccine for Lung Cancer
CimaVax EGF extends life with few side effects, and is another step in biotechnology expertise

Varadero in Cuba - A Holiday Resort Where You Can Pay in Euro
With the purpose to promote the growth of Europeans travelers coming to Cuba, the famous Cuban holiday resort Varadero became since June, the 1st 2002 the first place outside the Europe continent, using the transaction currency Euro.

Cuba Approves First Therapeutic Vaccine for Lung Cancer
CimaVax EGF extends life with few side effects, and is another step in biotechnology expertise

EU Scraps Sanctions Against Cuba
EU abolishes five-year-old sanctions despite appeals from US to maintain tough line against new government

Bank Ditches Uk Firms Trading With Cuba
A Somerset health shop selling Cuban sugar and a London tobacconist dealing in Habanos cigars are among British businesses told by a bank to cut their ties with the island or move their accounts.

Cuban Workers to Get Bonuses for Extra Effort
Egalitarian wage system abandoned in favor of worker incentives and bonuses for meeting production quotas

Bank Ditches Firms That Trade With Cuba
Lloyds TSB tells businesses to cut ties with the island or move their accounts, following threats by US government

Discovering Havana
This article introduces Havana.

Cuban Sting Shows Us Diplomat Handing Over Cash to Dissidents
Havana publishes emails, letters, videos and audio tapes purportedly providing evidence of a 'dark drama'

Wine Feast in Cuba
One of the most relevant activities related to tourism is the Fiesta del Vino (wine feast) celebrated every October at Hotel Nacional de Cuba.

Knowing Cuban Railroad: A Pretext for Travelling
Cuba is unquestionably an Island full of colors and interesting places. It is an ideal site for those tourists searching for further details of what has been written about any country.

Computer-age Comes to Cuba, But the Real Revolution is on the Land
Shoppers gather in Havana malls to gaze for the first time at computers legally on sale

The Partagás Habano House in Cuba
The chain or franchise shops La Casa del Habano can be found all over the world since it has more than 100 establishments. They are very special, beautiful places where the best Cuban Premium-type cigars are sold and, at the same time, smokers can learn about this country’s history and culture.

Magical Havana: Special Party for the Traveler
Definitely founded in 1519, to the shade of a leafy tree, a Ceiba, Havana suddenly became a very cosmopolitan city full of travellers coming from all parts of the world, willing to know it deeply.

Jardines del Rey, a Marvelous Cuban Landscape
Cuban nature counts on a wide amount of really marvelous places, protected and arranged for the demanding traveler. A truly feast for the senses and active vacations.

Cuba Censors Cyber Critic With Block on Island's Popular Blog
Cuba has blocked access to the blog Generación Y and two other Cuban blogs that share the same server in Germany

Cuba Eases Curb on Sale of Tvs and Computers
First sign of economic liberalization since retirement of Fidel Castro follows pledge to raise living standards

After 49 Years of Fidel, Cuba Ushers in the Era of Raúl
Raúl Castro formally designated successor amidst muted hopes of economic liberalization

Cubans Cling to Socialist Dream
Pride, defiance - and the hope of a more prosperous future with principles intact

Cayo Levisa: A Paradisiacal Key in the North Coast of Cuba
Pinar del Rio is a province that has many natural wonders. Viñales, Soroa, Las Terrazas among others can be mentioned, but it also has another one that is incredibly beautiful and peaceful: Levisa Key.

Guamá in Cuba: an incredible place in Matanzas Province
Guamá constitutes a natural place of singular attraction that is located in the Marsh of Zapata, territory that by the way presents a significant contrast since it is the biggest municipality in Cuba assisting to its surface and in turn the lee inhabited.

Cuban Cricket Team Caught Out By Us Ban
Bad international relations stop play as America blocks communist nation's debut

Cuba Agrees to Sign Un Civil Rights Agreement
Cuba has pledged to sign two key international agreements on civil and political rights, paving the way for regular UN monitoring of its human rights record from 2009

New Year's Eve in Cuba
The celebration of the New Year arrival in Cuba has a double connotation. The 1st of January is the official commemoration of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro. The 1st of January 1959 the troops commanded by Castro manage to drive out from Cuba a dictatorship led by Fulgencio Batista. Every year since then the New Year arrival has been celebrated as a victorious day.

Four British Residents to Be Released From Guantanamo
Four British residents being held without charge at the American detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are to be released, reducing the UK involvement with the camp to just one inmate.

Supreme Court Ponders Rights of Guantánamo Detainees
America's highest court yesterday held what is expected to be the pivotal case on the future of the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 300 foreigners accused of being terrorists are detained

Putin: Us Risks New Cuban Missile Crisis
Bush 'aping Soviet Union with missile shield' plan · Tactic may scare off EU states from hosting bases

Chávez Talks of Cuban and Venezuelan Confederation
Venezuela and Cuba have cemented their alliance with a range of economic deals which President Hugo Chávez said could pave the way to a confederation.

Cuban Doctors Restore Sight of Che's Killer
The Bolivian soldier who executed Che Guevara 40 years ago has had his sight restored by Cuban doctors, turning him into an unlikely advertisement for the revolutionary's ideals.

Economic Crisis Boost to Health of Cubans
Cuba's economic crisis in the 1990s inadvertently boosted people's health by obliging them to eat less and exercise more, according to research.

'Castro Dead' Rumours Send Miami Wild
According to the official line from Cuba, Fidel Castro is very much alive - but that has not stopped fevered speculation in Miami, writes Tracy McVeigh.

Dissidents Freed As Raúl Castro Signals Change of Tack in Cuba
· Dozens released as talk grows of Fidel's bad health· Overtures to US as small reforms bid to improve life

Eight Americans Graduate in Boost for Cuban Health Care
· Students plan to use skills to treat poor people· Public relations coup for Castro government

The Band Plays on As Communist Cuba Embraces Heart of Capitalism
The cigars are out, the beer flows and it's BMWs all round as Bavaria puts aside ideological differences in $500m deal with Castro regime.

US Judge Frees Cuban Wanted Over Bombing
A US judge has dismissed all charges against an anti-Castro Cuban exile wanted for the 1976 bombing of an airliner in which 73 people died. The move provoked anger yesterday in Cuba and Venezuela amid accusations of double standards in terrorism cases.

Cuba and Venezuela Turn Against Ethanol
Castro and Chavez attack US backing for biofuels - Leaders say diverting crops for fuel starves poor

Miami Cubans Soften Over Us Embargo
Hardline support among Cuban Americans for sanctions against their former homeland is falling, according to a new poll published yesterday.

Castro 'in Perfect Shape' to Stand in 2008 Elections
The Cuban president, Fidel Castro, will be in "perfect shape" to stand for parliament again in a year's time, the head of the country's national assembly has said.

Sport And Socialism: Cuba And Laos
"Sports and Socialism: Cuba and Laos" is a comparative analysis of the sporting system in the Third World Socialist regimes as Cuba and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

Hilton Hotels Lift European Ban on Cubans
The Hilton group yesterday reversed its ban on Cuban delegations staying at its hotels in Europe, and called on Britain and the US to resolve the contentious issue, which arises from the American embargo on the Caribbean island.

No Room at the Hilton: Cubans Find Us Trade Ban Stretches to Oslo
Norwegian unions protest global effect of embargo - Booking would have caused chaos says hotel.

Kill Fidel: Overview of the Plots To Assassinate Fidel Castro
Article gives detailed overview of some plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. Exploding cigars, poisons, political plots, mafia and other methods are listed.

Chávez Claims Castro is 'battling for Life' Amid New Fears for Cuban Leader's Health
The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, yesterday offered the bleakest medical update yet on Fidel Castro, saying he was "battling for his life". The pessimistic view came days after Mr Chávez, one of Castro's closest allies, had said his recovery was slow and not without risks.

Congress Trip Could Thaw Cuban Relations
A group of 10 members of the US Congress have arrived in Cuba in what is being seen as the first move in a possible thawing of relations with the country.

Cuban Democracy Funds Spent on Game Boys
Cuban dissidents who were given millions of dollars by the US government to support democracy in their homeland instead blew money on computer games, cashmere sweaters, crabmeat and expensive chocolates, which were then sent to the island.

Dissidents Blew American 'aid' Millions on Luxuries for Cuba
Cuban dissidents who were given millions of dollars by the US government to support democracy in their homeland instead blew money on computer games, cashmere sweaters, crabmeat and chocolates, which were then sent to the island.

Roll Up for Cuba's Finest - Only £233 a Smoke
What have been billed as the world's most expensive cigars, a limited-edition from the hands of one of Cuba's most famous rollers, have gone on sale at £233 each.

Cuban Newspaper Uncovers Widespread Corruption
A rare investigation by one of Cuba's communist newspapers has found that most state-run services are corrupt and preying on the population.

The Future of Cuba Should Be Decided By Cubans Alone
As the Castro era fades, the US should lift the 45-year-old blockade of the island and stop treating it like stolen US property. By Duncan Campbell

Castro Illness Creates Cuban Leadership Riddle
Cuba's political future remained uncertain yesterday as senior members of Fidel Castro's government made apparently contradictory remarks about whether the president's 47-year rule had come to an unofficial end.

The Rocky Road to Freedom
Osvaldo Paya is an outspoken political activist calling for change in Cuba. Duncan Campbell went to Havana to meet him.

Propaganda War Grips a Land Crippled By Shortages
For or against their leader, Cubans are united in their view of US sanctions.

US Travel to Cuba – A Guide for American travel to Cuba
Are you an American wondering how and if you can legally visit Cuba? The answer lies here.

US Has $80m Plan for Cuba After Castro
· Aid and advisers should be on standby, says report · Authors fear Venezuela could fund successors

Power Struggle As Us Lights Go Out in Havana Mission
An ongoing squabble between the Cuban government and American diplomats has escalated into a full-scale power struggle after Fidel Castro was accused of cutting off electricity to the US mission in Havana.

Resist This Us Backlash
Cuba is in danger of being punished by Europe for Washington's loss of clout in Latin America. By Ian Gibson

Money to Burn: How a Court Case Could Halve the Price of Cuban Cigars
· Judgment expected this week in import dispute · Ruling could open up European market

Dry Feet Fail to Keep Cubans in Florida
· Derelict bridge reached by 15 migrants 'not US soil' · Exiles demand rethink of repatriation policy

Cuban Boy Dies in Smuggler Tragedy
A six-year-old boy drowned when a smugglers' speedboat ferrying illegal Cuban immigrants to the United States capsized off the coast of Florida.

Huge Surge in Migrants Caught By Coastguard
US coastguards intercepted 2,712 Cubans attempting to reach America's shores during the past 12 months, more than double the previous year's figure of 1,225 and the highest number since 1994, when 37,000 crossed the Florida straits.

US Accused of Protecting Cuban Militant
The US is protecting the "Osama bin Laden of Latin America", the Venezuelan president said today.

High Court in Havana to Resolve Cuban Music Case Songs Case
The English high court has transferred to a Havana villa to resolve a dispute which asks who owns the UK publishing rights to some of Cuba's best-loved songs.

Spy Case Cubans Win Retrial Outside Miami
Five Cubans convicted of espionage in the US have won a retrial on the grounds that their original trial was prejudiced because it took place in the heavily anti-Castro atmosphere of Miami.

US Braced for Storms As Hurricane Lashes Cuba
Half a million south US residents are evacuated after at least 32 die in the Caribbean.

Will America Bail Out Castro's Most Committed Would-be Assassin?
Cuban ex-CIA operative appears in a US court today faced with extradition to Venezuela over bombing which killed 73.

Taxi-borne Refugees Set Sail for Florida
A family fleeing from Cuba commandeered a vintage taxi and sailed it 70 miles across the sea to the United States.

US Double Standards Claim Over Cuban Militant
Hypocrisy alleged over treatment of exile wanted for bombing.

US Urged to Find Cuban Suspect
The Bush administration was under pressure yesterday to track down a Cuban exile and former CIA agent implicated in a series of terrorist attacks.

US Embargo Against Cuba Scuppers Britons' Holidays
Hundreds of British travellers have had their Cuban holiday plans destroyed due to a clampdown on business with the government of Fidel Castro by Cendant, the American company that owns British travel agencies such as Ebookers, Octopus and Travelbag.

World Briefing: Simon Tisdall
Unrelenting US pressure on Cuba, set to ratchet up again at next week's UN human rights commission meeting in Geneva, is testing relations between the Bush administration and Latin American leaders.

EU Tries to End Cuba Cocktail War
European foreign ministers moved yesterday towards restoring normal diplomatic relations with Cuba after a two-year freeze.

Leading Cuban Poet Freed From Jail
Cuba's most famous political prisoner, the dissident poet Raúl Rivero, has been released by Fidel Castro's regime after serving 18 months of a 20-year sentence.

Cuban Troupe in Mass Defection
Members of a theatrical production staged the largest mass defection of Cuban performers to date yesterday as 43 cast members of Havana Night Club applied for political asylum at a US federal court in Las Vegas. "Art should have no boundaries," Nicole "ND" Durr, the company's founder,...

Cuba Ends Affair With American Dollar
Fidel Castro has ended Cuba's decade-long, bitter-sweet romance with the dollar. The announcement that US currency notes will in a fortnight no longer be accepted as payment in the country marks a radical change. Cubans have become used to shopping for all but basic goods with...

Republican Grip Starts to Loosen in Little Havana
Younger Cubans and more recent immigrants are turning away from the politics of the post-revolutionary exiles.

Cuba Escapes Ivan's Wrath
Cuba appeared to have escaped Hurricane Ivan relatively lightly today as the worst Caribbean storm in a decade passed over its sparsely populated western tip and spared the island's main urban areas. There were no immediate reports of deaths, injuries or serious damage to buildings. The...

Cuba Braces Itself for Hurricane Ivan
Cubans today evacuated their homes and waited for Hurricane Ivan, which has gained strength, to hit the island with 260kmph (160mph) winds and a storm surge of up to 7.5 metres (25ft). The storm, which has already killed at least 65 people in the Caribbean, picked up speed as it left the...

Cubans Brace for Ivan the Terrible
More than 60 dead so far as one of the most powerful hurricanes ever swamps the Cayman Islands in its passage across the Caribbean.

Revealed: the Full Story of the Guantanamo Britons
The Observer's David Rose hears the Tipton Three give a harrowing account of their captivity in Cuba.

Cuba? It Was Great, Say Boys Freed From Us Prison Camp
James Astill meets teenagers released from Guantanamo Bay who recall the place fondly.

Kennedy's Assassination Thwarted Hopes of Cuba Reconciliation
Castro 'saw killing as setback and tried to restart dialogue with new administration'.

Bush Defied Over Cuba
The White House was on a collision course with some of the most influential figures in the Republican party after the Senate voted to ease a 40-year ban on Americans travelling to Cuba. The Senate voted 59-38 on Thursday night to ease the travel ban two weeks after the US president,...

Cuban Exiles Furious As Rebel Stays to Fight in Havana
Castro opponent decides he will serve his cause better by remaining in his homeland.

Seumas Milne: Why the US fears Cuba
Hostility to the Castro regime doesn't stem from its failings, but from its achievements. Fifty years after Fidel Castro and his followers launched the Cuban revolution with an abortive attack on the dictator Batista's Moncada barracks, Cuba's critics are already writing its obituaries.

Reel Life
Stark, beautiful and politically ambivalent, a new silent film chronicling a day in Havana is packing cinemas in the Cuban capital. Giles Tremlett explains.

Family Ties Make Cuba and Us Best of Enemies
Giles Tremlett ends his Havana series with a report on Miami-based exiles and those they left behind.

Dollar Gnaws at Cuba's Marvellous Revolution
Part two of our series examines the reality of life for Castro's 11m people. A noisy, drunken game of dominoes is being played at the Committee for the Defence of the Revolution on Havana's San Lorenzo street, the pieces slapped down on the bare wooden table to the accompaniment of colourful, if amicable, abuse.

Dissidents Feel Full Force of Castro's Wrath
First of a three-part series shows why many Cubans feel they will have to wait for the 'biological solution'

Frantic Efforts to Bring Home Britons Held in Cuba As Blair's Us Trip Looms
Tony Blair wants President Bush to agree by the middle of next week to repatriate two British terrorist suspects facing a secret US military trial - before his rare address to a joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives in Washington. Downing Street fears Mr Blair's...

Cuba Urged to Free Dissidents
Amnesty International has added the names of 75 Cuban dissidents recently given long jail sentences to its list of "prisoners of conscience".

US Expels 14 Cuban Diplomats As Relations Take a Nosedive
The United States ordered the expulsion yesterday of 14 Cuban diplomats for alleged spying, the latest incident in a marked souring of relations between the two countries since George Bush came to power. American officials said the Cubans were expelled "for engaging in activities deemed...

Castro Dissidents Jailed in Reprisals
Cuba risks world condemnation as it cracks down on dissenters, writes Ed Vulliamy in New York.

'This is not the face of a peacekeeper'
The Cuban was the driver, the least painted-up of the Combined Anti-Armour Team Humvee that carried his name. Every other US marine in the car had coated his face in black and green warpaint in preparation for yesterday's entry into Baghdad.

Convicted Cuban 'spies' to Tell Us Appeal Court They Were Framed
Five Cuban men convicted in Miami of spying claim that they were framed to appease the Cuban American exile community there because they had infiltrated anti-Castro terrorist groups in Florida. The case of the Miami Five, which goes to appeal today in Atlanta, Georgia, has become a cause...

Trial of 80 Cuban dissidents tied to US interference
The deteriorating relations between Cuba and the US worsened yesterday as Havana began trying about 80 dissidents for subversion and treason.

Cuba blames 'lenient' US for latest hijack
The hijacker of a Cuban airlines flight, who claimed to have two hand grenades on board, surrendered to officials after the plane landed in Key West, Florida. He disembarked carrying a small child.

Cuba Attempts to Defuse Plane Hijack
Cuban authorities were today negotiating with a man armed with two hand grenades who hijacked a plane carrying 46 people in a bid to reach the United States. He hijacked the Soviet-built Antonov 24 plane on a flight from the Isle of Youth on the southern coast of Cuba last night and...

Cubans Accuse Us of Fomenting Revolt
The head of the US diplomatic mission in Havana has been accused by the Cuban government of encouraging a counter-revolution. Government opponents have reportedly been arrested as former President Jimmy Carter said he was "disappointed" by Cuba's reaction to proposals for change. James...

US Fines Veteran Cyclist £5,000 for Taking Holiday in Cuba
Joan Slote, who went on a cycling holiday to Cuba, was fined nearly $8,000 (£5,000) for breaking the US embargo of the island.

Bush Sidelines His Cuban Hardman
The Bush administration yesterday announced a new job - in effect a demotion - for Otto Reich, the controversial Cuban-American who has been responsible for policy in Latin America for the past year. The decision is a climbdown which acknowledges that the Senate, even with its new...

The Bush Dynasty and the Cuban Criminals
New book reveals links of two presidents and the governor of Florida with exiled hardliners.

How the Old Man Bridged the Sea
Hemingway deal erodes US embargo on Cuba.

The Cuban missile crisis
Forty years ago today, the Cuban missile crisis threatened to destroy the world - with two superpowers each on the brink of nuclear war. Read our guide to the people and events that shaped the era.

Congress votes to drop Cuba ban
A showdown between the White House and Congress over the long-established isolation of Cuba loomed yesterday after the House of Representatives voted to overturn the law which has restricted US visits to to the island for the past 40 years.

US Move to End Cuba Travel Restrictions
The US House of Representatives yesterday voted to lift restrictions on travel to Cuba and the sale of food and medicine to the country, but the measure would have to overcome a likely presidential veto to become law. In a 262-167 vote late last night, lawmakers approved a measure to end...

US Claims Proof of Cuba's Germ War Project
The state department head of intelligence said yesterday that the US had "substantial information" that Cuba was developing biological weapons and exporting dual-use technology, which could be used for germ warfare, to Iran.

Wake-up call
For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, nuclear war is not a distant threat but a real possibility and the lives of 12 million people are at risk.

This Goofy Estrangement
The Bush administration's rhetorical assaults on Cuba are being met with growing US scepticism.

Embargo Farrago
The US stance on Cuba looks increasingly anachronistic in the light of its support for countries such as Saudi Arabia and China, argues Duncan Campbell.

Bush stands firm on Cuba embargo
President Bush yesterday responded to the overtures his predecessor Jimmy Carter made to Cuba last week by denouncing Fidel Castro as a tyrant, and making it clear that the American trade embargo would remain in place.

Bush Sets Tough Conditions for Easing Cuba Embargo
Brushing aside recent overtures of improved Cuban-American relations, the US president, George Bush, today rejected calls to loosen a 40-year-old trade embargo and branded the Cuban president, Fidel Castro, "a relic from another era". In a speech at the White House marking Cuban...

'I don't think anybody thought much about whether Agent Orange was against the rules of war'
Robert McNamara, Defence Secretary to JFK and LBJ, talks about his crucial role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and explains why his experience in the Vietnam War convinced him of the need for an international criminal court. Even if it could mean his own record coming under scrutiny.

Bush snubs Carter call to end Cuba embargo
Former US president Jimmy Carter's proposal that the US should "take the first step" towards ending the four-decade embargo against Cuba will clash with anti-Cuba proposals that President George Bush is set to anounceon Monday.

Carter Makes Historic Address in Cuba
Former US president Jimmy Carter has made an unprecedented address to Cubans in a live and uncensored speech in which he said their country does not meet international standards of democracy and needs to work towards greater civil liberties. In the 20-minute speech, which he gave in...

War on Terror May Extend to Cuba
The US threatened to extend its war on terror to Cuba yesterday, accusing Fidel Castro's regime of developing biological weapons and sharing its expertise with Washington's enemies. In a speech called Beyond the Axis of Evil, the undersecretary of state John Bolton presented no evidence...

Second Us Taliban Fighter Held at Cuba Base
The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that it had a second American prisoner among the 300 Taliban and al-Qaida fighters captured last year in Afghanistan who are being detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. US officials said they had found a birth certificate apparently confirming the prisoner's...

Four Britons Killed in Cuban Plane Crash
Investigators were yesterday searching for clues as to why a Soviet-built biplane crashed in central Cuba, killing all 16 people aboard. Among the dead were four Britons flying to a beach resort, including two newlyweds who had married on the holiday isle just days before, it emerged...

17 Killed in Cuban Plane Crash
A small plane has crashed in central Cuba, killing the 17 passengers and crew on board, including five Britons, Cuban authorities have said. Officials at the International Press Centre in Havana said the four Cuban crew and 13 tourists - the five Britons, six Canadians, including a child,...

Rumsfeld Attacked Over Cuba Prisoners
British lawyers accuse US defence secretary of 'horsetrading with human beings'.

British prisoner in Cuba camp named
A 22-year-old former computer student who lived in Croydon is believed to be one of three Britons being held at the US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba. The name of Feroz Abbasi is understood to be on a list of 110 Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners captured in Afghanistan handed to officials...

America will give access to Briton at Cuban base
The US agreed last night to give British diplomats access to a UK national at Guantanamo base in Cuba suspected of fighting with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida forces in Afghanistan. Consent was given as concern about the conditions in which the prisoners are being held and the procedures...

Al-Qaida prisoners flown to Cuba
The first of hundreds of al-Qaida prisoners are due to arrive at the US military base in Cuba today after a high-security airlift from Afghanistan which has aroused the concern of human rights groups. Chained and hooded, the prisoners shuffled into a US air force C-17 cargo jet at...

Cuba base on alert for captives
The US naval base in Cuba at Guantanamo Bay was put on notice yesterday to serve as a prison camp for Taliban and al-Qaida captives. Guantanamo housed thousands of Cuban and Haitian refugees in the mid-1990s and offers huge security advantages: access to the US...