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years of torture. Meanwhile, the people of Cuba have always
fought for their land to be freed from U.S. imperialism.</div>
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Trump's expansion of migrant detention in
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Colonialist
Christopher Columbus landed in Guantánamo Bay on
his second voyage to the Americas in 1494. The
empires of England, France, and Spain later
disputed Guantánamo, a territory of 45 square
miles.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
“discovery” of the Cuban island unleashed a
Spanish extermination campaign against the
indigenous population, through disease,
starvation, and brutality.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>What
followed the genocide was the “vertiginous
growth of the slave trade based in Havana”. As
Harvard University's </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5080fd7d-5d76-4c8a-abe8-371bd26cb19d?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Hutchins Center for
African and African American Research</a><span>
put it:</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Cuba
became the largest slave colony in all of
Hispanic America, with the highest number of
enslaved persons imported and the longest
duration of the illegal slave trade. About
800,000 slaves were imported to Cuba— twice as
many as those shipped to the United States.</p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Today,
Guantánamo Bay remains occupied by the United
States. It is used as a detention center by the
most powerful military in history. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
U.S. routinely rejects the Cuban government’s
call to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5b7c91a7-4cf5-44d4-a660-c92cc80ff3f7?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">hand back</a><span>
Guantánamo Bay to the Cuban people.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
camp’s status is extremely dubious, not only
according to international law, but even by
domestic U.S. standards. The government argues
that those detained there are not entitled to
certain rights under U.S. laws.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>On
January 29, 2025, Donald Trump signed an
executive order calling to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/59c4fc7d-7b52-48fb-a468-5651d7b21a3e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">expand migrant detention
centers at Guantánamo</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9db3169f-2ac7-4124-b7e7-b518f1ad46f6?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">National Defense
Authorization Act</a><span> (NDAA) for 2015
banned the transfers of people imprisoned at
Guantánamo Bay to U.S. soil. It also imposed a
“Limitation on construction of new facilities at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,” meaning the migrants
detained there are confined in outdated,
run-down facilities.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
prison consists of several camps, each with
differing security levels, amounts of
transparency, and detainees. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Former
President Barack Obama promised to close the
prison but never did in his eight-year
presidential run. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
Trump’s first term, he pledged to not only keep
the prison open but to utilize it to imprison more
people there. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Former
President Joe Biden promised to shut it down, but
never did either.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Today,
in Trump’s second presidential term, he is sending
migrants to this notorious torture prison.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Nevertheless,
this is not the first time a U.S. president has
exercised this power. Therefore, it is essential
to understand the history of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,
and how this territory came to be a U.S. torture
camp.</p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">A
history of U.S. imperialism in Cuba</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Cuban people have a rich history of opposing the
unlawful U.S. military occupation of Guantánamo
Bay. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Cuba
fought valiantly for independence from Spain
between 1895 and 1898. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">After
the USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing
270 U.S. sailors, President McKinley declared war
on Spain. Consequently, Cuba’s arduous fight for
freedom was thwarted.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
the end of the war, the United States seized
Spain’s former colonies, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the
Philippines, and Guam, expanding the U.S. empire.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
1901, U.S. officials oversaw the drafting of
Cuba’s constitution, which included a section
known as the Platt Amendment. This granted the
U.S. the right to militarily invade the country
whenever it believed U.S. interests were
threatened. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Between
1902 and 1912, Washington dispatched the Marines
to Cuba four times. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Guantánamo
Bay was “leased” to the United States in 1903.
Although the U.S. government still controls it to
this day, it does not technically consider it to
be U.S. territory, because Washington rents the
land from Cuba.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Cuban government, however, has long refused to
cash the rent checks.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Starting
in 1902, Cuba was governed by President Tomás
Estrada Palma. He had initially risen to
prominence as a revolutionary fighting against
Spanish rule, but later sought U.S. military
intervention from President Theodore Roosevelt to
suppress a worker-led uprising in the tobacco-rich
Pinar del Río Province. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Later,
U.S. troops went on to fight other worker-led
uprisings in different towns throughout the
country. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
a result, the Platt Amendment set the stage for
U.S. imperialism to intervene in Cuban politics
and society, giving them a base to operate on the
island.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">An
uprising took place in Cuba in 1933, at a time of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor
Policy”. The movement resulted in the removal of
U.S.-backed dictator Gerardo Machado. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
U.S. was forced to repeal the Platt Amendment in
1934. The Cuban people continued to demand
rightful ownership of their land.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Due
to its strategic position on the country's
southeastern corner, Guantánamo Bay was initially
intended as a coaling and naval station, as the
U.S. Navy expanded worldwide. However, as time
passed and the global class war took center stage
with the rise of the Soviet Union, Guantánamo
Bay’s role evolved. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
most controversial use of the territory began
after September 11, 2001. The U.S. established a
detention center on January 11, 2002, for
militants captured during the “War on Terror.”</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
territory’s uncertain legal status is one of the
main reasons why the U.S. chose Guantánamo Bay as
a detention site. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">While
the U.S. occupies Guantánamo Bay, the Cuban
government retains full sovereignty over the soil.
Washington has taken advantage of this legal
ambiguity to detain people without complete
protection from the U.S. legal system. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/7f695bff-4527-43a3-a651-5358c72d17e7?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Military Commissions Act
of 2006</a><span> sought to formalize the
prosecution of detainees. Still, it faced legal
challenges, leading to key Supreme Court
Rulings, such as </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/de6739cc-f28c-49c3-b4be-5b92dd50526e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Boumediene v. Bush (2008)</a><span>,
which granted detainees the right to habeas
corpus.</span></p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Guantánamo:
A human rights nightmare</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Guantánamo
Bay has consistently captured the attention of the
international community, facing severe criticism
due to allegations of extreme human rights abuses.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Reports
from organizations including Amnesty International
and Human Rights Watch have documented instances
of indefinite detention, harsh interrogation
techniques, and the use of torture. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Critics
have condemned the detention center for operating
outside the norms of both U.S. constitutional
protections and international law.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
2023, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5eafa4f8-9979-46e6-9a85-1cbc7111fe91?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">150 human rights
organizations sent an open letter</a><span> to
then President Joe Biden, organized by the
Center for Victims of Torture, demanding that
Guantánamo Bay be closed. They wrote:</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Among
a broad range of human rights violations
perpetrated against predominantly Muslim
communities over the last two decades, the
Guantánamo detention facility — built on the
same military base where the United States
unconstitutionally detained Haitian refugees in
deplorable conditions in the early 1990s — is
the iconic example of the abandonment of the
rule of law.</p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
letter noted that it costs approximately $540
million per year to operate the torture camp,
“making Guantánamo the most expensive detention
facility in the world.”</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">When
Haitian refugees fled a 1991 U.S.-backed coup
against democratically elected president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the United States sent
them to Guantánamo. Then Attorney General William
Barr oversaw the operation. Barr would go on to
serve as attorney general again during Trump’s
first presidential term. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Additionally,
U.S. authorities sent Cubans seeking asylum to
Guantánamo. At its height, the camp held
approximately twelve thousand Haitian refugees. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Separately,
officials confined around 300 Haitian refugees
diagnosed as HIV positive in a separate facility,
often referred to as an “HIV prison camp.”
District Court Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. later
ruled that this practice violated the U.S.
Constitution.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">There
are several distinct camps throughout Guantánamo
Bay, with 12 publicly acknowledged sites where
people are locked up. Camp Iguana, Camp Echo, Camp
7, and Camp X-Ray are the most notorious. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Running
these detention camps is expensive. “Since 2002,
it has cost the United States $6 billion, and
the yearly cost of imprisoning each person is
over $13 million,” states a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/163266a5-808e-404e-994d-3dba5622d61a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Georgetown University
Factsheet Report</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Efforts
to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility
have seen political and logistical challenges
throughout the decades. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Former
President Obama campaigned to close the facility
but failed to do so. During Obama’s two terms in
office, the population fell from 242 to 41 people,
but 48 people were designated to indefinite
detention.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Public
government reports do not mention the secretive
immigrant detention facility, and only recently
have details surfaced about its </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a58a71e6-9ae4-4e0a-8247-6a740e749827?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">alarming conditions</a><span>.
In February 2024, the New York Times reported,
citing the Department of Homeland Security, that
authorities were holding four people at the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c0a8a49b-79c4-4d06-8ecb-cf08a8b03d29?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">secretive facility</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>When
Trump </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/232a10e6-6598-4090-99b5-9f39ba06c25a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">announced the order</a><span>
to send migrants to Guantánamo Bay, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/78084381-112c-41f5-852e-3b52508f5323?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Amnesty International
wrote</a><span>:</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Guantánamo
Bay has been the site of torture, indefinite
detention without charge or trial and other
unlawful practices by the U.S. government.
President Trump should be using his authority to
finally close the prison there, not re-purposing
the facility for offshore immigration detention.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">How
the Democrats are helping Trump</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Like
in Trump’s first term, Democrats have done very
little to assist working-class families and
immigrant communities affected by the president’s
racist executive orders. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">A
few Democrats have merely offered lip service
against the proposal to send 30,000 migrants to
the torture camp at Guantánamo Bay.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Democrats
have yet to offer a solution to halt the
deportations in the U.S. that endanger families. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">ICE
has received orders to achieve a daily quota of
1,200 to 1,500 arrests, leading to numerous raids
nationwide. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Moreover,
punitive actions, such as cutting federal funding
to sanctuary cities and states led by Democrats,
indicate a lack of challenge to Trump’s policies.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
administration has instructed federal
prosecutors to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1d037715-d96b-4b45-8a4b-c4e7844cdfc5?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">investigate</a><span> and
possibly file criminal charges against state and
local officials who do not comply with ICE. </span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Furthermore,
by declaring a national border emergency, the
administration can deploy more troops to the
U.S.-Mexico border, which further militarizes and
endangers border communities.</p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Worldwide
movement to return the land to Cuba</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Each
year, a protest takes place on January 11, calling
for the U.S. government to shut down Guantánamo
Bay. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
universal demand of human rights activists is to
free the remaining prisoners held there.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
U.S. occupation of Cuba at Guantánamo Bay is a
microcosm of U.S.-Cuba relations. While the Cuban
government has long demanded the return of this
territory, the U.S. continues to occupy the bay. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Furthermore,
the overwhelming evidence of torture at the
detention centers has exposed the cynicism of the
United States’ claim to be a “beacon of democracy”
or “defender of human rights”.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
bay is just one of many areas where the U.S.
persistently infringes on civil rights.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">On
February 4, 2025, authorities transported the
first group of deportees to Guantánamo Bay by
flight, raising questions about the conditions
they would face and the legality of their
detention, given that U.S. laws do not protect
people in those facilities.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Ironically,
with no serious evidence, the U.S. continues to
accuse Cuba of human rights violations. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
fact, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d6349a8a-e16c-4c28-84f8-93e242f78f51?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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Rubio</a><span> blamed the migration crisis in
the country on Cuba’s government and not on the
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f44d8cf9-601c-42e6-9d03-f01b014b6b04?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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U.S. embargo</a><span>. </span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
hypocrisy is clear to the world. It is the U.S.
government that funds and operates a torture camp,
conducting daily atrocities on Cuban soil.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
U.S. occupation of Guantánamo Bay remains a stain
on the history of humanity, an imprint of
colonialism that symbolizes torture and human
rights violations. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">While
Trump is operating an overtly barbarous campaign
against immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ people, and
other groups, the continued use of Guantánamo
demonstrates that this is much bigger than just
one president: the United States is a
carceral-imperial state.</p>
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