A history of Guantánamo Bay

A new podcast series from "Serial" is out today on the history of the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, one of the most controversial episodes in the more than two-decades long "War on Terror". Opened as a military prison in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, the US presence in Cuba in fact dates back more a century. Built on land rented from the Cuban government as part of a contested 1903 agreement signed following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the naval base at Guantánamo Bay is under US control...