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Estados Unidos no tiene planes de devolver Guantánamo a Cuba, dice la Casa Blanca

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Los esfuerzos por recomponer los lazos entre Estados Unidos y Cuba no alcanzarán el punto de convencer a Washington a devolver a La Habana el control de la base de Guantánamo, en el extremo sudeste de la isla, indicó el jueves la Casa Blanca.

"El presidente piensa realmente que la prisión de la base de Guantánamo debe ser cerrada. Pero la base naval no es algo que deseemos cerrar", expresó Josh Earnest, portavoz de la Casa Blanca.

Ese territorio incluye una importante base naval y un controvertido centro militar de detención, que comenzó a ser utilizado para mantener encarcelados a sospechosos de terrorismo apenas cuatro meses después de los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2011.

El presidente Barack Obama ya ha dejado clara su intención de hacer lo que sea necesario para cerrar ese centro de detención, una determinación que destacó inclusive en su último discurso anual sobre el Estado de la Unión.

El miércoles, al hablar durante la Cumbre de la CELAC en Costa Rica, el presidente cubano, Raúl Castro, puso de manifiesto que la restitución del control de ese territorio de 116 kilómetros cuadrados constituye un paso necesario para la normalización de las relaciones con Estados Unidos.

Ese territorio está bajo control estadounidense desde 1903.

Estados Unidos y Cuba sorprendieron el mundo el pasado 17 de diciembre al anunciar la intención de poner fin a medio siglo de desentendimientos y normalizar sus relaciones diplomáticas, en un acuerdo que quedó sellado en una histórica conversación telefónica entre Obama y Raúl Castro.

Sin embargo, las medidas administrativas anunciadas por Washington como parte de esa reaproximación no flexibilizan el rígido embargo estadounidense a Cuba, ya que ello está codificado en ley y su derogación estará en manos del Congreso.

Cuban Refugees Fled to the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay a Half Century Ago—and Never Left - WSJ

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By Michael M. Phillips 

NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba—In 1961, Ramon Baudin got wind that Fidel Castro ’s security forces were looking for him. He hid in a bus headed to this U.S. military base, sneaked past a police checkpoint, then pleaded with the American sentry: “Hey, buddy, I’m running away. Open the gate.”

Mr. Baudin has been here ever since, part of a small group of Cuban exiles who, in a hot moment of the Cold War, won permission from the U.S. government to stay at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base until Cuba was free.

For more than 50 years, the exiles have waited out Mr. Castro, circumscribed by a 17-mile razor-wire fence that separates their present from their past. They have married and divorced, had jobs and children. They have danced at base clubs and drunk at base bars. They play dominoes and listen to singer Celia Cruz. They have also seen their adopted home become synonymous with prisoner abuse since the U.S. housed nearly 800 terror suspects here.

Ramon Baudin, 92 years old, is one of the oldest of the 23 Cuban exiles living at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal

The ill are treated at the Navy hospital, and the dead buried by the beach in the base cemetery, alongside sailors and Marines who perished in the tropics 100 years ago.

“I thought I was only going to be here for six months,” said Mr. Baudin’s neighbor Noel West, 81 years old.

With few exceptions, they have never returned home. Many have made their way to the U.S. But a core group chose to stay, even though they acquired U.S. citizenship or residency. The U.S. Navy provides them free housing, utilities and medical care, along with subsidized meals at base mess halls.

“At the time, the Navy offered them safe haven, and we said, ‘Hey, you’re welcome to stay here until this gets resolved,’ ” said the base commander, Navy Capt. John Nettleton. “And here we are half a century later, and they’re still here.”

Now, the two-dozen remaining exiles are aging at a pace that is outstripping the Navy’s ability to care for them. The Navy flies the seriously ill to military hospitals in the U.S. Navy personnel have converted former nurses’ quarters at the base hospital into a 24-hour assisted-living facility. Government drivers transport the Cuban exiles to doctor appointments, exercise classes, McDonald’s and the all-in-one base store, the Navy Exchange.

U.S. troops landed at Guantanamo Bay during the Spanish-American War of 1898, and in their victory over Spain signed a perpetual lease that can only be canceled by mutual agreement between Havana and Washington.

Thousands of Cubans once commuted to base jobs. But relations with the U.S. soured quickly after Mr. Castro seized power in 1959, with the countries severing diplomatic ties in 1961.

The Guantanamo Cubans have been buffeted by the long conflict between the U.S. and Cuba, as well as the personal decisions they made long ago. When Washington and Havana were inches from war in the 1960s, the exiles found shelter on the base but gave up their homes and families.

Now that President Barack Obama has decided to normalize relations with Cuba, their fate is again up in the air. The Navy is unsure whether the easing of tensions means the exiles will have to move out.

For now, the Guantanamo Cubans are staying put, accustomed to the narrow but easy life on the military base, and skeptical that warmer ties with the U.S. means the Cuban regime would treat them well if they returned home.

“It’s kind of early,” said exile Ramon Romero, who took refuge on the base in 1960, at age 17. “You can never trust Castro because he can say one thing and turn around and do another thing.”

At 92, Mr. Baudin is one of the oldest of the 23 Cubans—known officially as special category residents—remaining on the base.

He says he isn’t homesick. But every day after the sun comes up, he settles into a white plastic chair under the roof of his carport and switches on a portable radio. Despite a broken antenna, it picks up a station from Caimanera, a town just outside of the barbed wire. Between news broadcasts and fast-paced guarachas, he listens for obituaries of long-lost friends.

“I can’t go there anymore,” he said of Caimanera, drawing a finger across his throat. “They’d kill me.”

A Cuban government spokesman in Washington didn’t return calls or emails seeking comment on whether the exiles would face legal or political peril if they returned home.

Mr. Baudin took refuge on the base when Cold War tension was aggravated by the botched 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis a year later.

Mr. Baudin was engaged to a woman in Caimanera when he learned that regime security men were after him. He never had a chance to explain his disappearance. He heard she married a milkman.

For work, Mr. Baudin was a caddie on the base golf course, then spent decades pressing uniforms in the laundry. He remembers good times with his Cuban friends here, fishing in the bay and drinking rum on the beach.
Most of them are dead now. Mr. Baudin wakes at about 3:30 each morning and meditates. Then, before dawn, he walks the streets, talking, he says, with the ghosts of his fellow exiles: He sees Gustaff Polica, who raised two children on Guantanamo and whose body is buried in the hills. He spots a woman in white who went home to Cuba to die with her family after decades at Guantanamo.
“I pray for my dead friends,” Mr. Baudin said. “They’re by my side. They watch over me.”
Most of the Cubans live in a neighborhood of flat-roofed concrete houses built in 1960, their pastel blues and greens faded by the sun. From his window across the way, Mr. Romero often watches Mr. Baudin pass under a streetlight on his predawn walk.
As a boy, Mr. Romero accompanied his grandfather on a 30-foot banana boat, steering it along the shore. They stopped at the base each day to sell fruits and vegetables.
By 1960, the family’s standing with the Castro government had become precarious. Two of Mr. Romero’s cousins had been killed, and another was languishing in prison, he said.

A home in the neighborhood where most of the 23 remaining Cuban exiles live. Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Romero’s grandfather, who cared for the boy, sent Mr. Romero to live on the base. “My grandfather said, ‘Stay here, otherwise you’ll be in jail or dead,’ ” Mr. Romero, now 71, recalled. “So I’ve been here ever since.”
Mr. Romero at first cried himself to sleep on the boat’s wooden seats. He eventually lived with a teacher from the base school, and then with the man who ran the lighthouse. Over the years, Mr. Romero worked as a janitor, firefighter and heavy-equipment operator. His favorite job was running and fixing the projector at the open-air base theater, the Lyceum. He retired with a small pension in 1998.

He built a dock among the mangroves behind his house and spends hours on a pontoon boat fishing for mackerel and downing cans of Miller Lite. He shies away from other exiles, wary of gossip. “I like to be by myself,” he said.

Capt. Nettleton worries what will become of the Cubans as they grow infirm. One exile was flown to the U.S. for dialysis. “I don’t envision us forcing them to go and leave the island, because of the commitment we previously made to them,” the captain said. “But it may come to that.”

Navy officials can’t find the documents that laid out the Kennedy administration’s original promise. The broad outlines have been passed down from one base commander to the next, reinforced by a 2006 law authorizing the Navy to “provide for the general welfare, including subsistence, housing, and health care” of the Cuban residents.

Exile Phillip Gayle has married three times since moving to the base in 1965. He buried one wife and divorced another. He now shares a room with his third wife in the assisted-living facility the Navy built to care for the aging Cubans.

His wife, Felicita Gayle, is 95 years old. Her health troubles require round-the-clock aides. “She put light back in my life when my life was dim,” said Mr. Gayle, who is 80.

He works off his stress at Zumba classes in the base gym. An energetic Spanish-speaking instructor leads the exiles—one of them is in a wheelchair—in dance moves to the song, “I’m Sexy and I Know It.”

Mr. Gayle thinks often of the 3-year-old son he left behind when he fled Cuba. His son later joined the Cuban army and fought in Angola when Mr. Castro intervened to support the leftist government there.

“If Cuba is free and I die here, bury me over there,” Mr. Gayle said. “As long as Cuba isn’t free, bury me here.”

The Naval cemetery is set amid underground ammunition bunkers. Among the hundreds of white-marble gravestones are 21 with the words “Cuban Exile” engraved beneath the names.

The U.S. continues to write the Cuban government an annual rent check of $4,085 for use of the base, a figure set in 1934. Each year, Havana signals its disapproval of the U.S. presence by refusing to cash it.

At one point in the 1960s, the Castro regime planted a wall of prickly plants to stop Cubans from seeking refuge on the base. The Americans dubbed it the Cactus Curtain.

In 1964, the Castro regime cut off water and power to the base. In response, President Lyndon B. Johnson dismissed most of the Cubans who commuted onto the facility. By that time, hundreds of Cubans—opponents of the Castro government—had already secured the Navy’s permission to live on the base indefinitely.

By 1987, the number of Cuban exiles on the base had dropped to 80. Today, there are 28 special category residents, including five Jamaicans who had won the status through marriage to exiled Cubans.

Capt. Nettleton estimates the Navy spends about $200,000 a year on salaries for civilian aides who assist the elderly Cubans. The Navy said it had no estimate of the cost of providing housing, utilities, medical care and other services for the exiles.

Cuban exiles gather for a prayer inside the Cuban Community Center on the base. Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal

Gloria Martinez, an 81-year-old cancer survivor, said she has stayed on the base in part because of the promise of lifetime care. Her late husband was a Cuban army sergeant in the 1950s who fought against insurgents led by Raúl Castro, Fidel Castro’s brother and now Cuba’s president.

In 1959, Ms. Martinez’s husband, Eduardo Martinez, got a job helping build the base bowling alley. Each night he returned to the Cuban side of the fence.

As the Castro regime cracked down on opponents, the couple’s house was repeatedly searched, Ms. Martinez recalled. She kept two hand grenades hidden in the house and said she had planned to use them if her husband ever faced a firing squad. She sealed her husband’s army medals in a jar and buried them under the patio.

“I told my husband they were looking for him, and he was never to come back to our home,” Ms. Martinez said.

One day in 1961, Mr. Martinez went to work on the base—and stayed. Ms. Martinez remained behind for a short time before making her own move. She glued her photo onto someone else’s ID card and headed to the base, repeating her fake name to herself: Jorgelina, Jorgelina. Jorgelina.

At a checkpoint, she recalled, the Cuban guard asked her name. Her mind went blank and she held up the ID card. “Ah, Jorgelina,” the guard said.

That was the last time she set foot on the Cuban side, she said. On the base she worked giving haircuts to Marines.

Their two children, now in their 40s and living in the U.S., were born on the base. Her husband died in 1988. When she fell ill with kidney cancer the following year, she was treated at a U.S. military hospital in Washington, D.C.

At the time, she worried if she moved to the U.S. she would lose her subsidized health care. Mostly, she said, she doesn’t want to leave Cuba, whose mountains are visible from her window. She has sisters living in Guantanamo City, an hour’s drive from her house, if such a drive were ever permitted.

“I’m close to my family here,” she said, “even though I don’t see them.”

Crimenes y desapariciones cometidos por guardafronteras cubanos en Guantanamo

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SHRINKING GITMO: Obama ships out 5 more prisoners, eyes camp closure

soon it will be a guantanamo beach & resort.

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Telequinesis coital y Gitmo

la sapiencia popular sentencio aquello que "secretico en reunion es mala educacion", pero esta gentuza se pasa por los overocos la opinion publica ciudadana y la transforman de conciencia critica social en objeto de manipulacion. varias son las clausulas secretas del pacto que se iran develando como el que no quiere la cosa. luego de la telequinesis coital autorizada del gerardito con adrianita o de ella con el, sobre el que levita -entre otros quizas- el ghost del infeliz aquel a cargo de su atencion en cierta epoca y que voluntariamente se reventara la cabeza contra la acera en caida libre desde el piso 14 del edificio de linea y A, porque eso de mariquitas y tarruos es pasatiempo publicitario de la infanta marielita castro, pero defenestrados para los cojonudos guerrileros geriatricos.

y gitmo no puede faltar en la agenda por revelar.

es un viejo sueno compartido por los brothers y el califa. en lo que va del mes de diciembre este ultimo mando a 6 terroristas para uruguay, donde el godfather guerrillero de mujica les brindo proteccion humanitaria con todos los gastos pagados y libre circulacion nacional e internacional y gustoso espera a otros; mientras tanto 4 aterrizaron en kabul. de los 132 restantes, 63 tienen aprobados sus traslados y en el caso de otros 59 se esta evaluando. quedarian 10  con cargos o cumpliendo sentencias que seran levantados o cambiados por asuntos si importancia y definitivamente devueltos a casa o a la capital que mas les plazca.

entonces, con los recortes al presupuesto de defensa andando, para que quiere el imperio una base militar en cuba, si esta no representa ningun peligro militar ni geoestrategico -putin por donde va y su complejo de tipo duro en cualquier momento se pone a vender hielo siberiano derretido como agua potable-, maxime ahora que somos pangas?: cambiarsela a raulito por 11.2 millones de vasitos de leche.
la operacion patty candela 2 esta en marcha, asi que en mayami que vayan levantando el protestodromo. estan avisados.

La cláusula secreta del pacto Obama-Castro

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Manuel Ballagas

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Como tantos otros acuerdos concebidos y sellados en conciliábulos ocultos, el pacto de Barack Obama con Raúl Castro tiene cláusulas secretas. Si los resultados anunciados ayer en Washington y La Habana provocaron la indignación de muchos, parece que lo que se avecina es peor. Mucho peor.

En los altos círculos militares de Estados Unidos se alistan ya los trámites, sotto voce, de la puesta en práctica de una de las partes ocultas del pacto Obama-Castro. No se trata ya de intercambios de prisioneros ni de temas de comercio e inmigración.

Algunos temen, por ejemplo, que la Ley de Ajuste Cubano peligre. Otros, más a la derecha, creen que Washington podría aprovechar para conseguir la extradición a Estados Unidos de algunos delincuentes asilados en la isla, como Joanne Chesimard, buscada por el asesinato de un policía en Nueva Jersey, y el puertorriqueño Víctor Manuel Gerena, buscado por el asalto de un transporte blindado de Wells Fargo. Pero por ahí no vienen los tiros.

Parece que en su afán de dar hasta el fondillo a los Castro, y de paso cumplir una vieja promesa de campaña suya, Obama se dispone, en un plazo no especificado, quizás durante la visita que se propone hacer a La Habana, a entregar la Base Naval de Guantánamo al gobierno cubano. Mataría, así, dos pájaros de un tiro: congraciarse con sus nuevos amigos, y clausurar la prisión para yihadistas que allí funciona, con el pretexto de que la base ya no estaría bajo jurisdicción norteamericana.

¿Tiene potestad nuestro dadivoso mandatario para hacer semejante concesión? Pasando revista al Tratado Cubano Norteamericano de 1903, suscrito por el presidente cubano Tomás Estrada Palma y el presidente estadounidense Theodore Roosevelt, no resulta claro si su anulación requeriría la aprobación del Congreso.

El tratado en cuestión fue firmado a perpetuidad, lo que significa que sólo podría rescindirse con la aprobación de ambos gobiernos, y a lo que parece, al cabo de todos estos años, Barack Obama resultaría el único mandatario estadounidense capaz de semejante disparate, con tal de cumplir su pendeja agenda política.

Quizás incluso los Castro estarían dispuestos, a cambio, de entregar a EEUU a Chesimard, Gerena y las decenas de otros estadounidenses prófugos que se hallan en la isla. Quién sabe. Habiendo considerables sumas de recompensa ofrecidas por ellos, y conociendo la avidez castrista de divisas, no sería de sorprender que los arrojaran por la borda. El botín de la base, un viejo reclamo de los Castro, serviría de justificación.

Me pregunto qué podrán decir cuando eso suceda el montón de sesudos que nos gastamos en el exilio, que aplauden las medidas de Obama y hasta ven una “transición” en el horizonte. ¿Será que nos van a decir que ya era hora de entregar esa vieja base? Y por cierto, ¿qué van a decir nuestros presuntos líderes?

Nada me extrañaría ya.

Obama’s Guantánamo closers make secret trip to prison camps, condemn status quo

By CAROL ROSENBERG

The two men charged with emptying the prison camps at Guantánamo of the last 164 captives visited the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba on Monday and issued a strong rebuke of the status quo.
“For us, it is not merely about treating detainees humanely, it is about ensuring that our operations reflect the values for which America stands,” said Paul Lewis, the Pentagon’s new special envoy for the closure of Guantánamo who traveled to the base Monday with his State Department counterpart for secret meetings at the prison camps.
The mostly U.S. Army, 2,100-strong staff of the prison camp compound that holds the last 164 captives, just six of them facing war crimes trial, soldier at the base under the motto of “Safe, Humane, Legal and Transparent” detention. After Monday’s mission to the camps, the military had no comment on the visit in which Lewis adapted the motto to argue it was time to put the prison camp out of business.

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Aca-idiota americano pide devolucion de la Base de Guantánamo a Cuba

un agente de influencias, colaborador en el extranjero, agente o tonto util; un tal jonathan hansen que el infinito google no encuentra y devuelve a un delantero del futbol argentino, propone que eeuu le devuelva la base naval de guantamo a cuba, para de "un solo golpe" normalizar las relaciones bilaterales. de free, claro.  

el asunto no es que este aca-idiota exprese eso, sino que el diario de la "mafia" cubana en mayami reproduzca sus declaraciones sin molestarse en hacerle un reviron de ojos. cual granma manana.

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Cuba y Consejo Latinoamericano de Iglesias llaman a proteger a los terroristas detenidos en Guantanamo

Guantanamo says goodbye to last Cuban 'commuters'

By SUZETTE LABOY and BEN FOX [AFP]

In this photo, Harry Henry, 82, back, and Luis La Rosa, 79, front, leave at the end of a working day at the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, where they have been working since they were in their late teens. La Rosa started working on the base at the age of 18 and Henry when he was 17. La Rosa and Henry, the last of what were once hundreds of Cubans commuting daily to work at the base, are retiring at the end of the December. Suzette Laboy / AP Photo

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- One of the world's most unusual commutes is coming to an end.
For more than a half century, Luis La Rosa and Harry Henry have left their homes before dawn each workday in the communist-run city of Guantanamo, where old American cars rumble past posters of the Castro brothers in a Cold War time warp, climbed into taxis and traveled to the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, where troops shop at a Wal-Mart-like store and eat at McDonald's and Subway.
The commute takes less than an hour but spans two worlds and a heavily guarded border fence.
Now it is coming to an end. La Rosa, a 79-year-old welder who works at the base's motor pool, and Henry, an 82-year-old office worker, are retiring at the end of the month. They were honored Friday at a retirement ceremony celebrating the uniqueness of their situation.
The close friends, who have a kind of celebrity status on the base, are the last of what were once hundreds of Cubans commuting daily to work at this isolated U.S. military installation.
For them, it is a bittersweet moment - a severing of one of the last real links between Cuba and the U.S. Navy base that has been an unwelcome presence on the island for generations.
"I feel a bit sad because I'm leaving, but I'm going to my country," La Rosa said on Thursday after passing through the coils of razor wire and a checkpoint guarded by U.S. Marines that separates the base from the rest of Cuba.
Both men brought their wives and other family members to the base for Friday's ceremony, the first time anyone else in their families had been able to visit the place where they worked for decades. La Rosa and Henry thanked the U.S. government and his colleagues; the older man, the only one of them who speaks English, drew laughs when he joked that "I think I can be here a few more years."
Over the years, the Cubans who worked on the base would present retirees with a wooden cane. It started as a joke and became a tradition. The base commander, Capt. John Nettleton, gave Henry and La Rosa each a wooden cane, carved with a wooden horse's head at the handle. A guest speaker, Cuban-born Navy Cmdr. Carlos Del Toro, thanked the men for their service to the base and the government.
"Both of you have made a difference," Del Toro said. "A difference in the United States, a difference in your homeland in Cuba."
Though this spot is best known for the base's prison for terrorism suspects, there is a substantial Cuban city of Guantanamo, which has a colonial downtown and a population of about 250,000. It lies to the northwest of the base, separated by mountains and marshland. A smaller city called Caimanera along the bay is the closest town to the U.S. installation.
There are about 30 other Cubans who live on the post, and the base commander has a monthly meeting with his Cuban counterpart to discuss logistics and administrative issues. But the base and Cuba have almost nothing to do with each other, and that fact is more pronounced with the two men's retirement.
"It is a real symbolic link that is disappearing," said Jonathan M. Hansen, author of the book "Guantanamo: An American History."

The U.S. seized Guantanamo Bay, which is considered an ideal natural harbor, from Spain in the Spanish-American War in 1898, retained it during the occupation of Cuba and then forced the Cuban government to sign a lease for the 45-square-mile base. Relations deteriorated after Fidel Castro took power in 1959 and then turned into outright hostility as the young rebel embraced Soviet-style communism. Keep reading >>

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Los cubanos que quedan dentro de la Base de Guantánamo

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Myrelia Greenough es una cubana de 73 años que vive en una casita blanca al lado del mar. Conduce su propio automóvil para ir al supermercado, al hospital y al centro cubano de su barrio. Esta situación aparentemente normal es extraordinaria: Myrelia vive en la base militar estadounidense de Guantánamo y hace años que no cruza la frontera que la llevaría al país donde nació, Cuba.

Myrelia forma parte de un grupo de setenta cubanos, la mayoría octogenarios y nonagenarios, que trabajaron en la base y se establecieron allí con el cese de relaciones diplomáticas entre su país y los Estados Unidos.

"Yo soy la más joven del grupo y el comandante de la base me contrató para que cuide del resto y los lleve al médico y al supermercado", me explicó Myrelia en el salón del centro cubano de su barrio, al que acude prácticamente todos los días.

Estos cubanos viven en un barrio de marcado acento caribeño, completamente ajenos al despliegue militar situado a medio kilómetro.

Rodeados de fuertes medidas de seguridad, de centenares de soldados y de una prisión con 171 prisioneros musulmanes que hace diez años que esperan un juicio, los cubanos jubilados tienen permiso para conducir por la bahía, ir a la playa y al médico, e incluso tienen su propio geriátrico y un cementerio.

La base militar de Guantánamo está situada a quince kilómetros de la ciudad cubana de Guantánamo, famosa por la canción Guantanamera.

Un campo de minas y las torres de vigilancia de Estados Unidos y de Cuba hace que sea imposible cruzar sin permiso el cercado conocido como "Puerta Norte" que separa la ciudad de la base.

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Guantamo Guard converts to Islam

This sense of community in America is all but lost as individuals and individual families become increasingly isolated and detached from eachother. While social media has somewhat ameliorated that drift and kept people connected, the quality of the interaction has a low ceiling due to limitations of the electronic media and the types of interactions it has a tendency to facilitate.

GITMO Detainees Get The Best Possible Treatment Under The Sun

Guantánamo Bay: A Rare Peek Inside The Notorious Detention Center (VIDEO)

President Barack Obama's recent announcement that military commission trials would resume at Guantánamo Bay after a two-year suspension is being slammed by some as a political about-face and a dangerous return to Bush-era policies.

As the New York Times is reporting, the White House says the president remains committed to closing Guantánamo, but notes that "it seems likely that the prison camp will remain a scar on the nation's conscience for years."

The BBC's Washington correspondent Andrew North was allowed an inside peek into the legendary detention center, which has held some of the most notorious criminals from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Terroristas: Pastores de la Paz y la Democracia

U.S. Won’t Label Terror Suspects as ‘Combatants’ ahora seran los pacificos defensores de la libertad y la democracia en su ardua tarea de defender al mundo del mal. El Hussein no considera que lo primero que hace cada uno de los terroristas al ser liberados es retornar a las filas del terrorismo organizado.
Tengo una propuesta, porque en vez de darles comida, ropa, dormitorio y prestarles servicios religiosos, de lavanderia, biblioteca, salud y cuanto se les ocurra reclamar a costa de los impuestos pagados por los contribuyentes, no se les envia a trabajar bajo regimen penitenciario a los lugares que requiera la union y del salario honradamente obtenido se le deduzcan los costos de los servicios?

Machado y el coco de Guantanamo/ Espinaxiones

Foto de la Ciudad Primada y su bahia

Para hacerlo breve, la estrategia de Machado y Raul:

• Problemas con el azucar en el primer exportador mundial hasta hace algunos pocos años incluidos los del ROBO-salacion
• Dificultades, escaseces y apartheid con el que fue el mejor tabaco del mundo
• El hombre nuevo mas prostituido que ninguno
• La potencia medica sin aspirinas, higiene ni salud fisica ni moral
• Entre los renglones mas importantes el cafe convertido por magia en chicharo molido
• La carne de res de una ganaderia al nivel de Uruguay y Argentina convertida en melcocha de soya y neuropatia como daño colateral
• La sal de Caimanera y playas y costas alrededor del archipielago racionada a un minimo
• El pescado del mar que nos rodeaba convertido en lanchas torpederas para asesinar a los que pretendan escapar del paraiso y las muestras se traen de Chile o el Mar del Norte
• Langostas y camarones convertidos en privilegio de extranjeros y motivo de carcel para innumerables conciudadanos
• Frijoles de zonas privilegiadas para su produccion y consumo para todo el pais convertidos en amargas y despreciables sobrantes de otros paises
• Desaparecio la raspadura y el queso fresco que ni en el vocabulario de las nuevas generaciones pueda encontrarse
• De Baracoa y Guantanamo ni el dulce de coco ni su agua para refrescar.