| Guantanamo is the name of a Caribbean inlet in Southeastern Cuba
that provides one of the biggest and best-sheltered bays in the world —
perfect for a naval base. Guantanamo today is also the name of
a major presidential headache. The prison there houses some 240
"detainees," as they are called, and President Obama has promised to
shut it down but has so far not found many countries willing to accept
the detainees, least of all this country, whose leaders say, almost in
chorus, "not in my backyard." How did the U.S. come to have this piece of Cuba in the first place?
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