Yeilis Torres, a 38-year-old Cuban woman, knows all too well the loneliness and anguish facing the migrants flown by the United States this week to its notorious military base in Guantanamo Bay in ...

is the uncertainty and the wait for the long process" of seeking asylum. For the past two decades Guantanamo Bay naval base, leased by Washington from Havana under a 1903 treaty, has been ...

1903 - The new Republic of Cuba leases 45 square miles of land in Guantánamo Bay to the United States for construction of a naval station. Building on the naval station begins that same year. 1934 - ...

WASHINGTON -- The first U.S. military flight deporting migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay landed in Cuba on ... of migrants sent to the U.S. naval base, which for decades was ...

Naval Station Guantánamo Bay is located on 45 square miles of land and water. The naval base is made up of three main geographical sections: Leeward Point, Windward Point and Guantánamo Bay.