United States of America
Ambassador Kevin Edward Moley
In December 1903, the United States signed a lease with the Cuban Government giving it rights to operate a Navy installation on 45 square miles of land and water around Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Shortly after the U.S. military operations began in Afghanistan in October 2001, the United States erected a makeshift internment camp at Guantánamo Bay, where it sent enemy combatants and suspected terrorist operatives captured during the "War on Terror." The detention camp has since been the focus of allegations of human rights abuses, leading to a UN investigation of the facility in June 2004 and the release of…
