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Guantánamo
Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.
Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool. These are traditional parts of the economy.
History
The city was founded in 1797 in the area of a farm named Santa Catalina. The toponym "Guantánamo" means, in Taíno language, "land between the rivers".
Geography
Overview
The municipality is mountainous in the north, at Humboldt National Park, where it overlays the Sierra Maestra (mountains), and borders the Windward Passage of the Caribbean Sea in the south. It is crossed by the Bano, Guantánamo, Yateras, Guaso, San Andrés and Sabanalamar rivers. The city is spread with a square plan and is crossed in the middle by the Carretera Central highway. Guantánamo Bay is a natural harbour south of it.
The municipality borders with El Salvador, Niceto Pérez, Caimanera, Yateras, Manuel Tames and Sagua de Tánamo; this one in Holguín Province. It counts the villages of Argeo Martínez, Arroyo Hondo, Glorieta, Las Lajas and Paraguay.
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9/11 trial judge forbids use of FBI interrogations at Guantanamo
Richmond Times Dispatch
19 Aug 2018
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Judge Blocks Use of Guantanamo Bay Detainees' Statements to FBI Interrogators
Voa News 19 Aug 2018
In the U.S. case against five Guantanamo detainees who are accused of aiding in the Sept ... After the detainees were transferred to the Guantanamo detention center, an FBI "clean team" -- agents who were not privy to the detainees' previous statements or interrogations -- again questioned the detainees ... As part of their defense, the attorneys had sought to investigate the conditions under which the CIA had interrogated the accused men ... ....
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Judge Bars Statements Made by Guantánamo Detainees During F.B.I. Interrogations
New York Times 18 Aug 2018
The decision could be a major setback for the effort to prosecute the five detainees who are accused of aiding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks ... ....
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Academy Mids Dig Marine Corps History at Guantanamo Bay
Public Technologies 16 Aug 2018
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This candidate for Florida governor cites serving at Guantanamo. What did he do there?
Merced Sun Star 15 Aug 2018
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U.S. military presence in Latin America & the Caribbean
Granma Internacional 15 Aug 2018
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Ex-Guantanamo detainee now selling sweets in Uruguay capital
The National 14 Aug 2018
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Former Guantanamo inmate opens pastry shop in Uruguay
ITV 13 Aug 2018
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New Air Force colonel to preside in Guantanamo’s stalled USS Cole case
HTO
10 Aug 2018
MIAMI — A new judge has been assigned to preside at Guantanamo’s stalled trial of a Saudi man accused of plotting al-Qaida’s suicide bombing of the USS Cole warship off Yemen in 2000 that killed 17 U.S. sailors ... ....
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Guantanamo Periodic Review Board Media Invitation Announced
Public Technologies 10 Aug 2018
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Welcome to customer services, Guantanamo Bay-style
The Spectator 09 Aug 2018
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MIND: Psychologists’ Group Maintains Ban on Work at Military Detention Facilities
New York Times 09 Aug 2018
Members of the American Psychological Association voted against allowing psychologists to resume work at certain detention centers like the one in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ... ....
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Coast Guard Port Security Unit returns home after 9-month deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Public Technologies 07 Aug 2018
Coast Guard Port Security Unit returns home after 9-month deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ... PORT CLINTON, Ohio - Members from Coast Guard Port Security Unit 309 returned to Port Clinton, Saturday, July 29, following a nine-month deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom ... personnel at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay....
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