Obama sopesa crear un sistema de detenciones y juicios similar al de Guantánamo en EE.UU.

·El presidente de Estados Unidos piensa en trasladar los juicios de los presos recluídos en la base militar a suelo estadounidense
·El nuevo sistema puede empañar su promesa de cerrar la prisión[!!!]
http://www.lavanguardia.es/internacional/noticias/20090514/53703489063/obama-sopesa-crear-un-sistema-de-detenciones-y-juicios-similar-al-de-guantanamo-en-ee.uu.-guantanamo.html

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, sopesa detener a sospechosos de forma indefinida en suelo estadounidense y, según se supo, trasladar los juicios de presos recluidos en Guantánamo a territorio nacional, lo que empaña su promesa de cerrar ese penal.
Si al final se decanta por esas opciones, Obama podría crear en una base militar de su país un sistema de detenciones y juicios que no diferiría mucho del establecido en Guantánamo, la base naval estadounidense en la isla de Cuba, por su predecesor, George W. Bush.
"La administración de Bush y (el vicepresidente Dick) Cheney ha concluido, pero irónicamente gobierna desde la tumba", dijo Eugene Fidell, presidente del Instituto Nacional de Justicia Militar.
Dicha administración "puso en marcha una sucesión de acontecimientos que ha limitado las opciones del Ejecutivo" de Obama, explicó. La cuestión es qué hacer con los 241 hombres retenidos en Guantánamo, algunos desde hace más de siete años.
Los republicanos han lanzado una ofensiva contra la Administración, a la que acusan de poner en peligro la seguridad del país con el cierre de Guantánamo y han dicho a los estadounidenses que Obama pretende trasladar a "terroristas" a sus barrios.

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Miss Universe's fun day out - at Guantánamo Bay

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/miss-universe-guantanamo-bay

The 240 people who live in very basic lodgings on the southern tip of a sunny Caribbean island may wish to reconsider the less-than-rosy opinion they have of their surroundings.

No less an authority than Miss Universe has visited Guantánamo Bay and pronounced the infamous US detention centre a "relaxing, calm, beautiful place".

According to a blog posting that will strike fear into the hearts of diplomats in Caracas and Washington, the beauty queen - who is also known as Dayana Mendoza from Venezuela - visited the facility last week with her friend, Miss USA, Crystle Stewart.

"It was a loooot of fun!" Mendoza wrote on the Miss Universe blog. She also recounted how she and Stewart met US military personnel and toured the camp, with its barbed wire fences, minefields and watchtowers. As well as a bar on the base, the pair also discovered an "unbelievable" beach in the bay.

"We also met the military dogs, and they did a very nice demonstration of their skills. All the guys from the army were amazing with us."

But the "deployment" - organised to entertain US troops and "boost morale" - also had its educational aspects.

"We visited the detainees' camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the[y] recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting," wrote Mendoza. "I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful."

Her experiences are a far cry from those of former detainees, who have alleged that torture, including "waterboarding", was practised at Guantánamo Bay.

Britain announced last week it would investigate whether its secret services were complicit in the torture of a UK resident released from the camp last month.

Barack Obama has set a one-year deadline for shutting the prison.