Word: cuba
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...course, how to get out of the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is as great a mystery as the place itself. Escape is a long shot. The base is a prison, and a jewelry box. "You can't be too careful protecting this enormously valuable intelligence trove," says Army General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the joint task force that runs the detainee operation on the 45-sq.-mi. base. And so there are constant perimeter patrols by infantry squads in full battle gear, and visitors get turned inside out before they're allowed anywhere near the cellblocks...
...Wenders’s works in both media, he has focused on landscapes on the verge of obliteration or demolishment, from pre-unification Berlin in Wings of Desire to abandoned cities of the American West and decaying houses in Cuba in his new exhibit, “Pictures From the Surface of the Earth: Photographs by Wim Wenders,” which is being shown at the James Cohen Gallery in New York City through...
...Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an initiative to expand North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere (with the exception of Cuba), brought thousands of protesters to Miami this past week, as well as a delegation of Harvard students sent by the Institute of Politics to observe the action. Media mogul Conrad Black has labeled activists who resist trade liberalization “the political equivalent of football hooligans.” He maintains that, “They are incapable of coherent articulation and they should be dispelled with as little force...
Proponents of the FTAA say the plan, which would remove barriers to trade and investment among all the countries of the hemisphere except Cuba, would promote economic growth, opportunities for employment, access to goods and services and ultimately greater prosperity to their 800 million citizens...
...situation in Guantanamo developed quite differently. While the U.S. could have moved the prisoners to any number of military facilities, it specifically brought them from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Cuba. Guantanamo is being used as a back door to avoid the federal requirements for the just treatment of prisoners. That its military facility is leased offshore is no excuse for the U.S. to flout due process...