Editing Guantánamo Bay concentration camp

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[[File:Guantanamo bay.png|thumb|Prisoners kneeling against the fence in the prison camp.]]
The '''Guantánamo Bay concentration camp''' is a [[United States of America|U.S.]]-owned prison camp in [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]] that currently holds 39 prisoners.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]|title=NYT: First declassified photos of Guantanamo Bay released|date=2022-06-15|url=https://mronline.org/2022/06/15/nyt-first-declassified-photos-of-guantanamo-bay-released/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615223831/https://mronline.org/2022/06/15/nyt-first-declassified-photos-of-guantanamo-bay-released/|archive-date=2022-06-15|retrieved=2022-06-19}}</ref> Up to 780 people from dozens of countries,<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=[[Gloria La Riva]]|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=20 years of U.S. crimes against humanity in Guantánamo|date=2022-01-13|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/20-years-of-u-s-crimes-against-humanity-in-guantanamo/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412175101/https://www.liberationnews.org/20-years-of-u-s-crimes-against-humanity-in-guantanamo/|archive-date=2022-04-12|retrieved=2022-06-19}}</ref> ranging in age from 13 to 98, have been imprisoned in the camp. 85% of prisoners were never suspected of being terrorists. Despite the original treaty banning commercial activities, the military base has a [[McDonald's]].<ref name=":1" />

== History ==
The United States began colonizing Cuba in 1898 in the [[Spanish–Statesian War]]. It occupied Guantánamo Bay and used it to launch an invasion of [[Commonwealth of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]]. In exchange for US troops leaving the rest of Cuba, the USA forced Cuba to cede Guantánamo Bay for an unlimited lease.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|author=David Vine|year=2020|title=The United States of War|isbn=9780520972070|city=Oakland|publisher=University of California Press|lg=http://library.lol/main/191568BFAC73F009132DB00ECD0F0F05|page=64–7|chapter=Conquest}}</ref>

Cuba was given independence in 1902 but Guantánamo stayed under U.S. control. It was originally used to store coal, which U.S. warships used for fuel at the time.<ref name=":0" /> In the 1930s, the USA and its [[Neocolonialism|neocolonial]] government in Cuba updated the lease to specify that Cuba can never force the USA to leave. The USA paid Cuba only $2,000 a year for the base until Cuba stopped collecting the checks after the [[Cuban Revolution|revolution]].<ref name=":1" /> The concentration camp was established on 11 January 2002, when the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] brought its first 20 prisoners to Cuba.<ref name=":0" />

== Torture ==
Prisoners are often tortured with sleep deprivation, freezing water, and intense light and sound.<ref>{{News citation|author=Raúl Antonio Capote|newspaper=Granma English|title=There is one place in Cuba where torture occurs|date=2021-11-08|url=https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2021-11-08/there-is-one-place-in-cuba-where-torture-occurs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202194348/https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2021-11-08/there-is-one-place-in-cuba-where-torture-occurs|archive-date=2022-02-02|retrieved=2022-06-19}}</ref> One prisoner was waterboarded 183 times.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
[[Category:Cuba]]
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[[Category:Colonial outposts]]