Not a great photo but a very important story. I recall driving in a two-car caravan, wending our way up a craggy hill to a deserted restaurant viewpoint overlooking a scintillating bay. Smack dab in the center of the luxuriant landscape was an incongruous entity, a fortress, a foreign city unwanted within a sovereign land. And surrounding America's Guantanamo military base was the western hemisphere's largest field of landmines, placed there by the American military to keep the Cubans off their own land. I thought Americans hate WMDs? Not as long as they’re used against non-Americans, I suppose. Inside Gitmo are kept imprisoned over 500 people for more than 4 years without any charges being brought, without any status afforded by the Geneva Convention. America has the base at Guantanamo Bay because in 1903 we strongarmed the corrupt presidential puppet to accept our terms for maintaining order in their country. 50 years later, in 1959, the USA still controlled Cuba through a dictator, Fulgencio Batista, but once Castro's Revolution took the country over, we were asked to clear out of the military base and give back Cuba its land. Of course America refused. Can you imagine if China had a base in San Francisco they refused to give up? And for the last 50 years we have refused to give Cuba back their own land. Americans love to claim the moral high ground, but most don't even know the true history of their own country's actions abroad. No wonder people consider us bullies.
Guantánamo Bay
La República de Cuba