HAVANA, Cuba – Cuban President and First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Miguel Diaz-Canel described as a brutality act the recent announcement from the Trump administration in the United States about forcibly incarcerating thousands of migrants at its naval base in Guantanamo Bay.
The Cuban head of state said the migrants will be located close to the renowned detention and torture prisons cells, which the US maintains in Guantanamo.
Meanwhile, in a post to social media, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said the United States’ decision to imprison migrants where Washington set up a detention and torture center reveals contempt for the human condition and international law.
The statements followed US President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order indicating the Defense Department to allocate 30 thousand beds in the US naval base in Guantanamo to receive migrants deported from US continental territory.
The announcement is part of the massive deportation plan of the new US administration, as promised during the electoral campaign of Donald Trump.
The prison camp at Guantanamo naval base was set up in 2002, by the US President George W. Bush to detain alleged September 11 attacker.
At present there are 15 detainees from that time at the prison.