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...leader recited a long and preposterous list of "successes" for the benefit of the visiting Defense Minister. I saw how, suddenly, Raúl could not take it anymore. He slammed his hand on the table and boomed, "F___! How come, if we are doing so well, the people complain of hunger?" Raúl immediately fired the offending official and sent a senior party official to Granma to address the province's problems...
...just about shouted hallelujah when I read that Jefferts Schori's focus will be to help right such global wrongs as hunger, lack of education for girls and boys and the fact that too many people die each day of preventable diseases. Ending suffering should be the top priority for all world leaders...
...world. A few journalists have been granted access to the facility following the coordinated suicides of three inmates last month, but camera crews and reporters are often hemmed in by minders and shepherded past buildings that have been the site of Guantánamo's harsher realities--the force-fed hunger strikers, the suicide attempts. If Guantánamo is legal and effective, now is the time for the government to prove...
...ready to be shipped in to force-feed them if they do. "We used to over-react, and the detainees saw that we got worried if they were not eating," he says."Now we have a system. I tell them, 'Have at it. If you want to have 460 hunger strikers, we'll get 460 doctors in here to take care of you.' They will not succeed...
...hunger strikers have already won a measure of success. In part because of their protests, and the attention focused on Guantanamo, the U.S. is facing growing criticism - from both allies and enemies - for the rules of detention at the camp. Now the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision effectively grants prisoners at least some of their longstanding demands, including more rights at trial. All the same, most of them are unlikely to be released soon. Indeed, authorities are currently constructing a new, state-of-the-art, $30 million prison at Guantanamo, where they plan to consolidate many of the camp...