MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Controversy in Uruguay over transfer of Guantanamo prisoners, before or after October election
US ambassador in Montevideo, Julissa Reynoso said that Washington “does not impose a date” for the transfer and arrival of the Guantanamo prison detainees to be accepted by Uruguay, but admitted that the ideal would be for this to happen before the end of President Jose Mujica's mandate next March first. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNo Money Pepe: disaster at every turn.
Sep 02nd, 2014 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now he's been flim-flammed into taking double the number by the look of it.
Cretins like him just don't get it that when you say yes to the yanks they have this queer view that you mean yes! When he really meant manana, maybe.
I really hope the Vasquez fails and one of the others gets in: ABBV!!!
Seems ynsere was correct when he advised me Vasquez is just another problem in the same suit of clothes.
I imagine the half-dozen 'refugees' - once they get to UR - will be discouraged from going elsewhere in the world.
Sep 02nd, 2014 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On the other hand they might just opt to go home.
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Sep 02nd, 2014 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently Uruguay has a responsibilty to monitor these characters and ensure they do not return “home”.
Given 'No Money Pepe' couldn't find his backside if he were sitting on it, any agreements he made with Obama would be forgotten before he got back to Uruguay.
I´m afraid that Ms. REYNOSO has been guilty of dereliction of duty if she failed to inform the State Departmente of that memorable sentence, well known to all Uruguayans, of their philosopher-president: “As I tell you one thing, I also tell you the other” (“Como te digo una cosa, te digo la otra”), of unfathomable convenience for a statesman.
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