Abstract
Cuba, the USA and Guantánamo Bay: the collision between national sovereignty and imperial ambition GERALDINE LIEVESLEY The USA's occupation of the naval base of Guantánamo Bay on Cuba and its use of the facility as a detention centre for suspects detained during its war on terror is used as a metaphor for Washington's historical interventions into the affairs of Cuba and also the rest of Latin and Central America. This article considers the relationship between the USA and Cuba and particularly the influence extended by Cuban-American émigrés over the formation of Washington's policies towards the island. It is particularly concerned with how the neoconservative administration of George W. Bush has sought to intensify the aggressive position adopted by successive presidents and, within the wider context, how it has used its pursuit of national security interests in the post-9/11 world to attempt to impose its imperial ambition upon both Cuba and the rest of the region.
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