Guantánamo

[gwahn-tah-nuh-moh, gwahn-tah-nah-maw]

noun

1. a city in SE Cuba: U.S. naval base.

Guantánamo

/ ɡwanˈtanamo /

noun

1. a city in SE Cuba, on Guantánamo Bay . Pop: 214 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

He also championed the expansion of executive power, the use of torture and the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay.

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The Bush administration constructed a massive facility at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in order to indefinitely hold those individuals and struck deals with foreign governments to operate "black sites" where interrogations could be conducted without judges weighing in on the legality of the activities.

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He has expanded the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay to house deportees and struck deals with foreign governments to receive deported individuals.

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It often fell to Cheney, not President Bush, to make an assertive, unapologetic case for the American-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and for the controversial antiterrorism measures such as the Guantánamo Bay prison.

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He became a critic of the Obama administration's national security policies, opposing plans to close the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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