Four Syrians, a Palestinian and a Tunisian arrived yesterday in Montevideo after over a past decade in American jails. Here they have refugee status and are therefore free to leave the country whenever they want.
Explanations of the outgoing Uruguayan president: "Guantanamo is not a prison. It is a nest of detentions. A prison assumes any legal system, the presence of an attorney, the decision of a judge, whatever it is. It must also be at least a reference point or a legal point of view. But it (Guantanamo) it's nothing, "insists José Mujica.
Obama must move 136 prisoners still held in Guantanamo Bay (Cuba) as it promises since his first election in 2008, there was six. But why must convince a reluctant US Congress more.
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