Guantanamo

VSN Denounces Trump’s Targeting of Venezuelan Migrants

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor El Salvador, Imperialism, Migrants, Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, US Government Action, Venezuela

Statement by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network, March 2025 The Venezuela Solidarity Network (VSN) denounces President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization as an outrageous and illegal action that seeks to criminalize Venezuelan migrants in the context of an ongoing effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela. The VSN[…]

US Sends Dozens of Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo as Relatives Plead Innocence

February 28, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Human Rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, Migrants and Refugees, Prisons and Prisoners

by Ricardo Vaz, published on Venezuelanalysis, February 15, 2025 Caracas, February 15, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The United States government has sent more than 100 Venezuelans to a US naval base with a history of human rights abuses in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to reports, the transfers began earlier this month as part of the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.[…]

Cuba Lives, Breathes, Resists – May Day, COVID, Guantánamo, & the Summit of the Americas

June 9, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Citizen Diplomacy, Cuba, Democracy and Consent

by Diana Block, published on CounterPunch, June 3, 2022 I set off for Havana at the end of April to participate in the 15th International May Day Brigade organized by ICAP (The Institute for Friendship with the Cuban People). Having achieved one of the lowest COVID mortality rates and highest vaccination rates in the world, Cuba had reopened the country[…]

Political Prisoners in Cuba and in the United States; Facts and Fiction, P1

January 18, 2022 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Political Analysis, Political Prisoners

by Gustavo Maranges, published on Resumen English, January 9, 2022 In recent days, we have witnessed an avalanche of accusations by United States government officials against Cuba for allegedly holding over 600 political prisoners after the protests on July 11. Assistant Secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols and the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have been among[…]

The Forever Prisoner”: Alex Gibney’s New Documentary About CIA Torture Victim Abu Zubaydah

January 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Prisons and Prisoners

by Andy Worthington, published on Close Guantanamo, December 22, 2021 Yes, Guantanamo is still open with a number of prisoners never accused of a crime. In the long litany of torture and abuse inflicted by the U.S. government on prisoners in the brutal “war on terror” that the Bush administration declared after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, few[…]

A Coronavirus Lament by Guantánamo Prisoner Asadullah Haroon Gul

July 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Afghanistan, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners

By Andy Worthington, published on CloseGuantanamo.org, April 4, 2020 Most of us don’t think too much about Guantanamo any more. Yes, this article is a little out of date. The most recent writing by Haroon Gul, who is currently on a hunger strike, is a recitation of despair with suicidal undertones. I thought you would better understand where he started.[…]

In Shielding US from Legal Obligations, Kavanaugh Conflates International Law with Foreign Laws

August 22, 2018 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, International Law

The Supremacy Clause establishes the Constitution, Federal Statures, and U.S. treaties as “the supreme law of the land.” The Constitution is the hightest form of law in the American legal system. State judges are requied to uphold it, even if state laws or constitutuions conflict with it. by Marjorie Cohn, published on Consortium News, July 31, 2018 The two primary[…]