Tag: US Guantanamo

• Wednesday, June 4th 2014 - 09:14 UTC

  Uruguay ready to receive Guantanamo prisoners and displaced Syrian children

  

  Uruguayan government negotiations with Washington to receive detainees from the US jail in Guantanamo base, and with the UN to host Syrian children and their families are well advanced, revealed Foreign minister Luis Almagro.

• Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 02:38 UTC

  Uruguay agrees to take 8 to 12 Guantanamo prisoners; announcement in 'a couple of weeks'

  

  The administration of president Jose Mujica is willing to take eight to twelve of Guantanamo prisoners as refugees in Uruguay and this could happen once the US Senate approves a bill to that purpose, according to sources from the ministerial delegation currently in Washington.

• Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 08:37 UTC

  Mujica meets Obama on Monday with a long agenda of issues to discuss

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica flies on Saturday evening to the United States and on Monday at 10:45 will be walking into the White House for a sixty minutes meeting with President Barack Obama. Mujica will be spending five days in Washington where he has scheduled a long list of meetings and conferences.

• Friday, March 21st 2014 - 01:20 UTC

  Mujica confirms Uruguay will accept Guantanamo prisoners as 'refugees'

  

  President Jose Mujica confirmed that Uruguay has agreed with the United States to accept some prisoners held in the much-criticized detention center at the US military base of Guantanamo Bay, but he also cautioned that “everything has a bill”.

• Friday, February 22nd 2013 - 01:11 UTC

  Cuban dissident wants an end to US economic embargo and close down Guantanamo

  

  Famed Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez defended before the Brazilian Congress the end of the US economic embargo and called for the closing down of the US Guantanamo military base.

• Thursday, May 31st 2012 - 01:22 UTC

  Ecuador calls for an end to colonialism in Malvinas, Puerto Rico and Guantanamo

  

  Ecuadorean Minister of Foreign Affairs Ricardo Patiño called on Wednesday for an end to the remains of colonialism and specifically mentioned the Falklands/Malvinas, Puerto Rico and the US Guantanamo base in Cuba.