Weekly Report - 11 December 2014 (WR-14-49)

Six inmates from the US detention camp in Guantánamo, Cuba, arrived in Uruguay early on 7 December. They were taken to a military hospital for health checks upon their arrival. “It is going to be like what our parents and grandparents did when they came here, persecuted by suffering and war,” the defence minister, Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro, said. “Uruguay is a country of immigrants. They are going to have to find work and if they want to they will be able to bring their families,” he added.

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