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

Two others identifying themselves as the USS Gravely and USS Jason Dunham last transmitted their locations in mid-August, at the American base in Guantanamo Bay.

From BBC

While some prominent Taliban fighters and leaders were sent to Guantanamo, Halimi, as a relatively unknown bureaucrat, was part of a group that was gradually let out.

From Salon

He was captured in 2003 and is being held in Guantanamo Bay, the US prison camp in Cuba.

From BBC

The plea deal was negotiated over two years and approved by military prosecutors and the senior Pentagon official in Guantanamo Bay.

From BBC

Reuveni’s account explicitly mentions three different cases where senior officials at the Justice Department attempted to dodge court orders, including the March 15 deportation of 100 Venezuelans to a megaprison in El Salvador, 17 immigrants being sent to a U.S. military facility in Guantánamo Bay and then El Salvador, and the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

From Salon