Tag: US Guantanamo

• Tuesday, September 27th 2016 - 07:41 UTC

  Following Colombia, “Malvinas, one of three issues pending solution in Latin America”

  

  Following the peace agreement signed in Colombia, only three main issues remain pending in the Americas, devolution of Guantanamo to Cuba, the Falklands/Malvinas dispute and a sea outlet for Bolivia, according to Bolivian president Evo Morales who hailed the deal rubricated on Monday in Cartagena before world leaders.

• Thursday, September 1st 2016 - 07:35 UTC

  Guantanamo Bay inmate is back in Uruguay following his arrest in Venezuela

  

  A former Guantanamo Bay inmate who was resettled in Uruguay and then arrested in Venezuela after going missing has been sent back to Uruguay, officials announced in Montevideo. Syrian Jihad Diyab, 45, who was resettled in Uruguay as a refugee in 2014 -- was jailed at the headquarters of the Venezuelan secret police after going off the radar in Uruguay then traveling to Venezuela, apparently evading border control.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2016 - 04:47 UTC

  Fifteen Guantanamo prisoners transferred to the United Arab Emirates

  

  Fifteen prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates — the largest single release of the Obama administration. The population of the military prison in Cuba is now down to 61.

• Friday, July 29th 2016 - 13:25 UTC

  Uruguay will not fund Turkey ticket for vanished ex Guantanamo inmate who surfaced in Venezuela

  

  The Uruguayan government announced on Thursday it will not fund the return trip or to Turkey or any third country, of former Guantanamo prisoner, Jihad Ahmad Dhiab who went missing for over a month and this week turned up at the Uruguayan consulate in Caracas, Venezuela.

• Saturday, August 15th 2015 - 08:33 UTC

  Kerry calls for a new era in relations with Cuba, but also urged political change

  

  US Secretary of State John Kerry declared a new era in relations as he celebrated restored diplomatic ties in Havana on Friday, but he also urged political change in Cuba, telling Cubans they should be free to choose their own leaders.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 05:38 UTC

  Uruguayan president meets Obama; UNHCR will provide Guantanamo detainees with homes

  

  The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, will provide homes to six former detainees of the US military prison in Guantanamo who have struggled to resettle in Uruguay, the country`s President said on Friday.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2015 - 04:23 UTC

  It's official: Uruguay will not receive any more Guantanamo inmates

  

  Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa said on Monday that Montevideo absolutely will not accept any more inmates from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, in contrast to the previous government of Jose Mujica, who took in - as refugees - six Middle Eastern men who had been held at the facility.

• Tuesday, December 30th 2014 - 07:29 UTC

  Guantanamo refugee wants to leave Uruguay

  

  Reports indicate he would prefer to go back to his Palestine parents, who are too old to move to South America.

• Saturday, December 27th 2014 - 10:03 UTC

  US offer 5 million dollars for former Guantanamo detainee

  

  Held since 2002, Ibrahim al-Rubaish was released in 2006 to a rehabilitation camp in Saudi Arabia, but has now become a leading Al Qaeda, ISIS operative

• Wednesday, December 24th 2014 - 06:43 UTC

  State Dept. confirms resignation of Guantanamo Closure Special Envoy

  

  Clifford Sloan had acted as a liaison with Uruguayan President Jose Mujica in bringing six refugees into the South American country for humanitarian reasons