# base in cuba

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/base-in-cuba/160501>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 11, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/base-in-cuba/160501 "2003-03-11T06:26:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/base-in-cuba/160501/1 "2003-03-11T06:26:08Z")

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I have been wondering this forever and now I just have to ask. how did we end up with a military base in cuba? we are keeping war criminals in cuba, I thought we were mortal enemys with cuba, why do we have a base there? and not just some hunkered down fort, a base we use with no complaint to ship people in and out, a high traffic base, not just a marginal fort allowed bitterly to exist by cuba.

how did that happen? anyway?

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**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/base-in-cuba/160501/2 "2003-03-11T06:29:52Z")

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