Guantánamo
Guantanamo (Spanish spelling: Guantánamo) is a city in southeast Cuba, capital of the Guantánamo Province. It has about 208,000 inhabitants and most of them live from producing sugarcane and cotton wool.
About 15 km away from the city lies the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, with its detention centers for alleged unlawful combatants captured in the "War on Terrorism", notably Camp X-Ray.
Guantanamera ("The girl from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song.
The US occupies a 45-square mile naval base at Guantanamo Bay under a series of agreements concluded with Cuba. The original 1903 lease left "ultimate sovereignty" with Cuba, but gave the US "complete jurisdiction." Later agreements set the annual rent for the base at $2,000 in gold and provided the US could remain at the base in perpetuity as long as it did not abandon Guantanamo or agree with Cuba to leave. The base at Guantanamo Bay is in the unusual situation of being a permanent US military base located in an unfriendly nation. This was popularly illustrated in the movie A Few Good Men, especially in the final courtroom outburst in which the fictional base commander Col Jessup (Jack Nicholson) defends his role as a modern day warrior.
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