If america has no relations with cuba, why do they allow US to operate Guantanamo?

Question

If america has no relations with cuba, why do they allow US to operate Guantanamo?

Answer 1

Guantanamo is an American territory that shares the island with Cuba.

Answer 2

Cuba sincerely wishes the USA would get the h**l out of Guantanamao Bay. The Cuban-American Agreement of 1903, signed when Cuba was little more than a US colony, gives the USA an unlimited lease on the land. Castro has tried to have the lease declared void under the 1969 Vienna Convention on International Treaties, which states that any treaty signed under duress or threat of force is null and void. Also, the 1903 agreement prohibits commercial usage, yet the US base has fast food outlets and other shops & restaurants. Castro and now his brother Raul never banked any of the annual $6000 cheques which they received for the lease, and have repeatedly told the USA they want them out of Cuba. Now that the US government has the base as a convenient concentration camp for suspected terrorists/people they don't like the look of, away from the US media & general public, they are unlikely to give it up.