The North East Gate

Cuba / Guantanamo /
 gate, military
For years Cuban workers lined up and walked across to work on the base as day laborers. In 2006, only two elderly Cubans still crossed the base's North East Gate daily to work on the base; the Cuban government prohibits new recruitment. This brings some people memories of Berlin wall, since this is the only place where one can cross between two territories controled by a capitalistic state and a socialist one, (as North Korea has closed the only other). Guantánamo Bay is still legally Cuban territory under the Platt amendment (which gave the US control over it).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantánamo_Bay_Naval_Base
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Coordinates:   19°58'23"N   75°5'13"W

Comments

  • Photo of NorthEast Gate http://1.usa.gov/Z8Hbbw Not the "Platt Amendment", rather the Teller Amendment, which forbade annexation, and Article III of the February 1903 Lease agreement. See Yale Law School documents. http://bit.ly/2013GTMOlease
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