United States Territory of the Corn Islands

So apparently in 1914, the United States signed a treaty with Nicaragua that took out a 99-year renewable lease on these islands in the Caribbean. Since the US basically ruled Nicaragua at the time, is there any chance the US could formally incorporate the Corn Islands into a territory?

And how might this look politically, since the Corn Islands have far less population than other US territories but still have a few thousand people there?
 
If the US hangs on to them they will be a tourist destination, nothing more. Nice port call for cruise ships...
 
Another thing I realised is how might this play into the Nicaragua Canal? While the Corn Islands are relatively far from the current proposed Atlantic opening of the canal, other proposals put the Corn Islands very, very close to the opening of the canal. Might a Nicaragua Canal instead of a Panama Canal persuade the US to hold onto the islands? Or if a Nicaragua Canal is built anytime after Panama, how might that affect the islands and their relation to the US?

Probablly return them to Nicaragua post 1960. I cant see much economic of military benefit with those.

Didn't stop the US from hanging onto other random islands in the world. Even if that's basically what they did OTL.
 
Another thing I realised is how might this play into the Nicaragua Canal? While the Corn Islands are relatively far from the current proposed Atlantic opening of the canal, other proposals put the Corn Islands very, very close to the opening of the canal. Might a Nicaragua Canal instead of a Panama Canal persuade the US to hold onto the islands? Or if a Nicaragua Canal is built anytime after Panama, how might that affect the islands and their relation to the US?



Didn't stop the US from hanging onto other random islands in the world. Even if that's basically what they did OTL.
Well the Treaty that let the US lease the islands in the first place also gave the US rights to any Nicaragua Canal

Now the Panama canal was already built when that treaty was signed, but if say you have a pro Soviet government talking about building such a canal with Soviet help, the US might just hold onto their leases so as not to seem to be willing to abandon the treaty
 
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