WHY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MUST RETURN THE US. NAVAL BASE IN GUANTANAMO (GITMO) TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA ???

By Colonel Juan Armando Montes, USA (Ret), Graduate from High School "La Luz School" 1944-1955,

Havana-Cuba,  also a Graduate  Juris  Doctor (JD) St. Thomas Villanova University, Havana, Cuba

 (1955-1960).  General Staff, USA. Armed Forces Staff College and US. Army Command & General Staff College Graduate,  Foreign Area Officer (FAO), Department of Defense Institute Security Assistance Management (DISAM),  US. Special Forces (Green Beret), Infantry, Airborne & Ranger Qualified. Brigade 2506 Naval, N-468.

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WHY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA “MUST” RETURN THE US. NAVAL BASE (GITMO) TO CUBA…….

Is it now the right time and place in history for the Government of the United States of America (USG) to return the US. Naval Base in Guantanamo, to the Government of Cuba (GOC)?

First of all there is a Legal Bi-Lateral Treaty Binding both Nations to the letter and spirit of the Law.  This is a simple but profound question to be answered by Legal Scholars’ minds giving knowledgeable advice to the American People, to be decided “Only” by the Congress of the United States of America consenting or not about this sensitive matter and then the President of the USA acting on it, approving or vetoing it.

The USG must only return “GITMO” to a legitimate and sovereign democratically elected government by secret and universal vote by all the Cuban People in the sland and abroad,

only, and only then, when the Nation of Cuba is absolutely Free and Democratic his people united in close bond as one Nation, free of oppression and universally sovereign in the eyes of all Free Nations, only then!

The time is not yet in the horizon. The time to return “GITMO” is not now! Simple as that. It will be a grave historical unforgivable error and disservice to our present generation and generations to come, and obviously, paramount to the Cuban People if the President of the USA wants to impose now his will and mandate for political expediency or ideological reasons.

The President of the USA must act accordingly to the legal framework under the Constitution.

He cannot and should not act unilaterally in a legal matter of this magnitude without Congressional Consent and the absolute support of his Nation.

This sensitive diplomatic matter must not be solved by “Executive Order”