Editing Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (section)

=== Permanent lease ===
{{See also|Cuban–American Treaty of Relations (1903)}}
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| long_name            = Agreement for the lease to the United States of lands in Cuba for coaling and naval stations
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| date_signed          = {{Start date|df=yes|1903|02|16}}; 23 February 1903
| location_signed      = [[Havana]]; [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]
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| date_effective       = 23 February 1903
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* {{flagcountry|Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)}}
* {{flag|United States|1896}}
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| citations            = [[United States Treaty Series|TS]] 418; 6 [[Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776–1949|Bevans]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=79AWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1113 1113]
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{{Infobox treaty
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| long_name            = Agreement providing conditions for the lease of coaling or naval stations
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| date_signed          = {{Start date|df=yes|1903|07|02}}
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| date_effective       = 6 October 1903
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* {{flagcountry|Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)}}
* {{flag|United States|1896}}
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| citations            = [[United States Treaty Series|TS]] 426; 6 [[Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776–1949|Bevans]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=79AWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1120 1120]
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The 1903 lease agreement, which has no fixed expiration date,<ref>{{cite magazine | magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date = 5 June 2018 | title = How Did the U.S. Get a Naval Base in Cuba? | date= 18 January 2002 | first= Chris | last = Suellentrop | url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/how-did-the-u-s-get-a-naval-base-in-cuba.html }}</ref> was executed in two parts. The first, signed in February, consisted of the following provisions:<ref name="Lease 1" /> 
#'''Agreement''' – The United States of America and the Republic of Cuba, desiring to maintain the Independence of Cuba, will enter into a lease for lands necessary for US Naval Stations.<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79AWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1113 |title=Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949: Canada-Czechoslovakia |date=1968 |publisher=Department of State |language=en}}</ref>
#'''Article 1''' – Describes the boundaries of the areas being leased, Guantanamo Bay and [[Bahía Honda, Cuba|Bahia Honda]]. 
#'''Article 2''' – The U.S. may occupy, use, and modify the properties to fit the needs of a coaling and naval station, only. Vessels in the Cuban trade shall have free passage. 
#'''Article 3''' – Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty, but during the occupation, the U.S. exercises sole jurisdiction over the areas described in Article 1. Under conditions to be agreed on, the U.S. has the right to acquire, by purchase or eminent domain, any land included therein.

The second part, signed five months later in July 1903, consisted of the following provisions:<ref name="Lease 2">[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/dip_cuba003.asp ''Lease to the United States by the Government of Cuba of Certain Areas of Land and Water for Naval or Coaling Stations in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda''] U.S. Federal Government, 1903.</ref> 
#'''Article 1''' – Payment is $2000 gold coin, annually. All private lands within the boundaries shall be acquired by Cuba. The U.S. will advance rental payments to Cuba to facilitate those purchases. 
#'''Article 2''' – The U.S. shall pay for a survey of the sites and mark the boundaries with fences.
#'''Article 3''' – There will be no commercial or other enterprise within the leased areas.
#'''Article 4''' – Mutual extradition
#'''Article 5''' – Not ports of entry. 
#'''Article 6''' – Ships shall be subject to Cuban port police. The U.S. will not obstruct entry or departure into the bay. 
#'''Article 7''' – This proposal is open for seven months. 
SIGNED Theodore Roosevelt and Jose M Garcia Montes.

In 1934, the United States unilaterally changed the payment from gold coin to U.S. dollars per the [[Gold Reserve Act]]. The lease amount was set at US$3,386.25, based on the price of gold at the time.<ref name="GREEN">{{Cite book|last=Green|first=Timothy|url=https://famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/FederalReserve/CentralBankGoldReserves.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923095152/http://famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/FederalReserve/CentralBankGoldReserves.pdf |archive-date=2010-09-23 |url-status=live|title=Central bank gold reserves: An historical perspective since 1845|date=1999|publisher=World Gold Council|oclc=43033613|via=famguardian.org}}</ref> In 1973, the U.S. adjusted the lease amount to $3,676.50, and in 1974 to $4,085, based on further increases to the price of gold in USD.<ref>{{cite book |last=Strauss |first=Michael |date=2009 |title=The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay |url=http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=D2074C |publisher=Praeger Security International |page=246 and viii|isbn=978-0-313-37782-2}}</ref> Payments have been sent annually, but only one lease payment has been accepted since the [[Cuban Revolution]] and [[Fidel Castro]] claimed that this check was deposited due to confusion in 1959. The Cuban government has not deposited any other lease check since that time.<ref>{{cite news | work=Reuters | access-date = 13 March 2016 | title = Castro: Cuba not cashing US Guantanamo rent checks | date= 17 August 2007 | first= Anthony | last = Boadle | url = https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN17200921 }}</ref>
[[File:Shareds 1906 from GITMO.jpg|222x222px|thumb|right|Shards from 1906]]