NothingNow
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Actually, considering everything, including the weather, it's a worse location than canaveral, or Tampa Bay, given the sheer number of storms occurring in that part of the Island. Not to mention the rough geography.Why?
OTL, the space launch centre was built about as far south as possible given the constraints of being in the US, and having clear ocean to the east (and possibly northeast). IF Cuba were a state, the space centre would more likely be on the southeast tip of Cuba, launching east between Haiti and the Turks and Caicos. Actually, you could launch straight north, too, which might obviate the necessity for Vandenberg in California.
So, no, I doubt that Canaveral would be anything more than a sleepy tourist town, if that.
There wasn't a road leading to Baracoa until the 1960's for a good reason, and it's not that unusual in Guantánamo Province.
Canaveral and Tampa Bay are much more convenient locations all around.