{"id":29741,"date":"2025-01-31T01:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29741"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:59:49","slug":"guantanamo-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/guantanamo-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Guant\u00e1namo Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Guant\u00e1namo Bay Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the US President signed an executive order directing the preparation of a large-scale migrant detention centre at the US naval base in Guant\u00e1namo Bay.<\/p>\n<h2>About Guant\u00e1namo Bay<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It forms an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting <strong>southeastern Cuba.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a large and well-sheltered bay, it has a narrow entrance to a harbour and capable of accommodating large vessels.<\/li>\n<li>Guant\u00e1namo Bay <strong>Ports:<\/strong> It is served by the ports of <strong>Caimanera and Boquer\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The strategic importance of the bay\u2014close to the <strong>Windward Passage<\/strong> between Cuba and Haiti that links the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea and Panama.<\/li>\n<li>Guantanamo Bay, <strong>widely known as \u201cGitmo,\u201d<\/strong> has been used to house terrorism suspects since the September 11, 2001, attacks, but it also has a small, separate facility known as the Migrant Operations Centre.<\/li>\n<li>This centre has historically held migrants intercepted while attempting to enter the US by boat, primarily from Haiti and Cuba.<\/li>\n<li>The facility occupies only a small part of the base and currently lacks the capacity to house the 30,000 detainees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Guant\u00e1namo Bay FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1: <\/strong>Who owns Guantanamo Bay?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What is a bay?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> A bay is a body of water that is partially enclosed by land but open to the larger surrounding area, typically connected to the ocean or a large lake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> Why is the Caribbean Sea famous?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is one of the most biologically rich marine environments in the Atlantic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/trump-us-set-up-30000-person-migrant-detention-center-guantanamo-bay-9806764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guant\u00e1namo Bay forms an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting southeastern Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}