Guantánamo Special Coverage

  • Logout
  • Member Center

A New Alcatraz Rises: Guantánamo ready for Taliban

 

crosenberg@herald.com

dealsaver
The Miami Herald: Subscribe now!

More from
Guantánamo Special Coverage

  • Web Extra | A prison camps primer

    The Pentagon has built a series of facilities at Guantánamo Bay since it inaugurated its offshore detention and interrogation center for terrorist suspects in January 2002 by airlifting captives to remote Cuba from Bagram, Afghanistan.

  •  

A guard looks through the "beanhole" of a cell at Camp 5, where the Pentagon houses its war criminals and other captives, during lunch.

    WAR ON TERROR

    Guantánamo: the most expensive prison on earth

    The cost to house a captive at Guantánamo Bay is $800,000 per year, far in excess of other federal or state lockups.

  •  

The bulk of the Bay of Pigs training took place in Guatemala thanks to the patronage of then President Manuel Ydigoras Fuentes, according to a recently released CIA history. Cuban anti-communist paramilitary trainees are shown here learning how to fire a mortar at a base in Guatemala in early 1961 in this photo courtesy of former Brigade Pilot Esteban Bovo, now a Miami-Dade County Commissioner.

    CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare

    A recently released, and brutally honest, look at the run-up to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Operation focuses on the CIA’s prominent role.

Join the
Discussion

The Miami Herald is pleased to provide this opportunity to share information, experiences and observations about what's in the news. Some of the comments may be reprinted elsewhere in the site or in the newspaper. We encourage lively, open debate on the issues of the day, and ask that you refrain from profanity, hate speech, personal comments and remarks that are off point. Thank you for taking the time to offer your thoughts.

We have introduced a new commenting system called Disqus for our articles. This allows readers the option of signing in using their Facebook, Twitter, Disqus or existing MiamiHerald.com username and password.

Having problems? Read more about the commenting system on MiamiHerald.com.

Hide Comments

This affects comments on all stories.

Cancel OK
0 comments

  • Videos

  • Quick Job Search

Enter Keyword(s) Enter City Select a State Select a Category