Agreement
Abrogation of the Platt Amendment, 1934
The United States and Cuba signed a new Treaty of Relations on 29 May 1934, abrogating most of the Platt Amendment while preserving the legality of prior US occupation actions and the Guantánamo Bay lease.
What happened
On 29 May 1934, the United States and Cuba signed a new Treaty of Relations, superseding the 1903 Permanent Treaty that had embodied the Platt Amendment. The 1934 treaty preserved only two elements of the earlier arrangement: the legality of actions taken by the United States during its military occupation of Cuba, and the lease of the Guantánamo Bay naval base; the Amendment's unilateral US right of intervention in Cuban affairs was abrogated.[1]
Sources for this page
Each number marks a specific claim. Notes give the source, its locator and how it relates to the claim.
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Claim: The Platt Amendment of 1901 conditioned the withdrawal of US troops from Cuba on provisions including a unilateral US right to intervene in Cuban affairs and negotiation of a US naval base at Guantánamo Bay; it was incorporated into the 1901 Cuban constitution and the 1903 Permanent Treaty. On 29 May 1934, the United States and Cuba signed a new Treaty of Relations abrogating the right of intervention, while preserving the legality of actions taken during the earlier US military occupation and the Guantánamo Bay lease.
- Platt Amendment (Wikipedia) link, Terms and 1934 abrogation sections. Source record