Guantánamo, a synonym for horror, could soon be used to hold thousands of migrants
The US naval base in Cuba has a prison for foreign terrorists, but also a lesser known center for migrants intercepted at sea who are detained in deplorable conditions, according to human rights groups
The name of the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba often sends shivers down one’s spine. Its still-open penitentiary is synonymous with the most sinister excesses, torture and abuses of the U.S. war on terror following the attacks of September 11, 2001. But the base also houses a much lesser-known center for holding migrants intercepted at sea — most of them from Cuba or Haiti — in conditions that have also been heavily criticized by humanitarian organizations.
