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Biden urges Latin America to take in Guantanamo prisoners

BOGOTÁ, Colombia – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, on a four-country trip across Latin America, said he hoped the region would accept more Guantanamo prisoners to help expedite closing the facility, in an interview published Wednesday by a Colombian newspaper.

Uruguay agrees to take Guantanamo detainees

Uruguay's President José Mujica said Thursday that his country had agreed to receive detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, calling the decision a matter of human rights.

Doctors complicit in torture at CIA, military prisons: study

The Defense Department and the CIA demanded that the health care personnel "collaborate in intelligence gathering and security practices in a way that inflicted severe harm on detainees in U.S. custody."

Outcry over Guantanamo prison grows, as does hunger strike

Petition: "There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where not being charged with a war crime keeps you locked away indefinitely and a war crime conviction is your ticket home."

Obama will try again to shut Guantanamo prison

On Wednesday, Cuba's foreign minister demanded that Washington shut Guantanamo Bay and return the long-held military base to Havana.

U.S. increase number of medics at Guantanamo over hunger strike

British Guantanamo expert: "Every day I expect to hear the worst. I am appalled that President Obama has done nothing, and continues to do nothing."

U.S. Activists Protest Guantanamo Prison Camp in Cuba

HAVANA – Five U.S. pacifists, among them anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, traveled to the Cuban capital this week to demand the closure of the...
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