Bahía Honda was one of the naval bases leased to the US under the Platt Amendment, but abandoned in 1912 in turn for an expansion of the area leased around Guantánamo Bay.
At the Constitutional Convention, Gómez was one of those who voted in favor of adopting the Platt Amendment.
On March 1, 1901, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Army Appropriation bill with the Platt Amendment as a rider which governed U.S. relations with Cuba from 1901 to 1934, and was named for Sen. Platt.
The Platt Amendment is incorrectly referenced as being a 1906 amendment to the United States Constitution in the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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