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Guantanamo should be shut before Obama leaves, says Pentagon chief

The Tico Times - August 20, 2015

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Guantanamo closure plan suffers setback over US site for detainees

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White House finalizing plan to close Guantanamo prison

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Is clock ticking on US base at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay?

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Biden urges Latin America to take in Guantanamo prisoners

The Tico Times -

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

The Tico Times -

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

Alberto Font -

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

Alberto Font -

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."