Obama’s Cuba Visit Raises Concerns About Guantanamo Bay’s Future

By David Welna
In this Feb. 2, 2016 photo, military personnel enter Camp 6 at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After 14 years, the detention center appears to be winding down despite opposition in Congress to President Barack Obama’s intent to close the facility and confine the remaining prisoners someplace else.
In this Feb. 2, 2016 photo, military personnel enter Camp 6 at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After 14 years, the detention center appears to be winding down despite opposition in Congress to President Barack Obama’s intent to close the facility and confine the remaining prisoners someplace else. Ben Fox / AP
In this Feb. 2, 2016 photo, military personnel enter Camp 6 at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After 14 years, the detention center appears to be winding down despite opposition in Congress to President Barack Obama’s intent to close the facility and confine the remaining prisoners someplace else.
In this Feb. 2, 2016 photo, military personnel enter Camp 6 at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After 14 years, the detention center appears to be winding down despite opposition in Congress to President Barack Obama’s intent to close the facility and confine the remaining prisoners someplace else. Ben Fox / AP

Obama’s Cuba Visit Raises Concerns About Guantanamo Bay’s Future

By David Welna
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Occupied by Americans for more than a century and coveted far longer, Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay has seen a series of rationales for its being the longest held U.S. military base abroad. As President Obama visits Havana, some fear it won’t be long before Cuba controls that outpost for the first time ever. Others say it’s about time that happened.

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