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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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Mysuru’s unlikely link to a Guantanamo detenu
The Hindu
22 Sep 2018
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Inquisitr 21 Sep 2018
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14 Sep 2018
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GlobalResearch 13 Sep 2018
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Two ex-officials: Obama was ‘agitated’ at pace, cost of Guantanamo 9/11 hearings
The Charlotte Observer 12 Sep 2018
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Guantanamo Bay naval station holds ‘We Will Never Forget’ 9.11 km memorial run
The Miami Herald 12 Sep 2018
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Psychologists Say No to Torture
Truth Dig 12 Sep 2018
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On Victim-Blaming in the War on Terror: Targeting Muslims 17 Years After 9/11
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Brown, Yale daughters of 9/11 victim visit Guantanamo Bay
The Providence Journal
10 Sep 2018
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — "It's my last first day of school for a while," 22-year-old Jessica Bram Murphy says from the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.She is filled with enthusiasm as she begins her final year of college.Her studies in international development have spanned a broad spectrum — from Middle East policy and Arabic to the analysis of developing countries and how they approach poverty ... ....
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American Psychologists Helped Design Torture Programs — Now They Want to End Them
Alternet 10 Sep 2018
The American Psychological Association will extend its policy keeping its members out of Guantanamo Bay. Sometimes the good guys do win. That’s what happened on August 8th in San Francisco when the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA) decided to extend a policy keeping its members out of the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The APA’s decision is important -- and not just symbolically ... ....
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