That former guard shack with the Northeast Gate sign on top of it: What's in there now? Is it just left empty? How do they maintain it, without being able to go fully around it on the outside (half of it is in communist Cuba)?
@Johnny Rep Wow, never knew that -- so the actual boundary is likely just a painted line on the ground somewhere further northeast of that gate (which can't be seen in most photos)?
@Johnny Rep Aha, okay -- I see it. That's pretty cool! So Cuban forces are never supposed to go over that line, and vice-versa for US troops. Does the same 40 foot boundary extend all around the GTMO fenceline?
@Johnny Rep So in effect, the Cubans have "sacrificed" some of their own territory to create a kind of "no-man's land" to serve as a security barrier along the fenceline? I knew about the "cactus curtain," and at one time it was also the largest minefield in the western hemisphere (second only to the one between North and South Korea). I think the US removed the mines in the 90s, but the Cuban ones remain? I lived in Puerto Rico throughout 1990, and also visited the USVI/BVI. Around the time frame you were at GTMO, I also went to Barbados, and the Mexican Yucatan coastline, so I know the Caribbean a bit. I would love to visit GTMO -- for a civilian, it looks like it'd be a blast. There's even a McDonald's! :-)
0:55 *"Somos neutrales"?* That's why you had to leave in the first place; because you let yourself get chased out of your home by communists. Lleva tu neutralidad a otro lugar que no sea una base militar estadounidense.
El es mi padre hoy cumple 4 años de fayesido.
Dios lo tenga en la gloria!!! Todos ellos fueron unos valiosos hombres.
Lo siento mucho. Mis condolencias.
Él trabajaba en la base?
Abajo la dictadura castrista
That former guard shack with the Northeast Gate sign on top of it: What's in there now? Is it just left empty? How do they maintain it, without being able to go fully around it on the outside (half of it is in communist Cuba)?
@Johnny Rep Wow, never knew that -- so the actual boundary is likely just a painted line on the ground somewhere further northeast of that gate (which can't be seen in most photos)?
@Johnny Rep Aha, okay -- I see it. That's pretty cool! So Cuban forces are never supposed to go over that line, and vice-versa for US troops. Does the same 40 foot boundary extend all around the GTMO fenceline?
@Johnny Rep So in effect, the Cubans have "sacrificed" some of their own territory to create a kind of "no-man's land" to serve as a security barrier along the fenceline? I knew about the "cactus curtain," and at one time it was also the largest minefield in the western hemisphere (second only to the one between North and South Korea). I think the US removed the mines in the 90s, but the Cuban ones remain? I lived in Puerto Rico throughout 1990, and also visited the USVI/BVI. Around the time frame you were at GTMO, I also went to Barbados, and the Mexican Yucatan coastline, so I know the Caribbean a bit. I would love to visit GTMO -- for a civilian, it looks like it'd be a blast. There's even a McDonald's! :-)
0:55 *"Somos neutrales"?* That's why you had to leave in the first place; because you let yourself get chased out of your home by communists. Lleva tu neutralidad a otro lugar que no sea una base militar estadounidense.