Subject: Guantanamo Bay

• Puppet Punch

  January 11, 2007

• Bush Administration Looks to Curtail More Gitmo Rights

  April 26, 2007

• A Taste of Gitmo in Miami

  May 9, 2008

• Current Art Shows

  January 13, 2005

• Gitmo Inches Toward Its Final Days, or Does It?

  Over the weekend, the Pentagon airlifted a slew of reporters and a handful of family members of 9/11 victims to Guantanamo Bay to watch the latest in the trial of five prisoners.What was mostly meant as a photo op turned into a genuine, huge news story when all five detainees, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, abruptly pleaded guilty.In the aftermath of the guilty pleas, everyone is wondering what's next for the most glaringly visible stain on America's international ethical repu

  December 11, 2008

• Guantanamo Interrogators Torture Inmates with Britney Spears

  So apparently our military has decided to use what they call a 'sonic bludgeon' in order to get information out of prisoners with out actually using, you know, physical torture. This is truly American innovation at its best! Interrogators at military prisons like Guantanamo Bay blast songs, like Britney Spear's "Baby One More Time," into cells at high decibels on repeat for hours at a time. The goal is that prisoners will eventually leak information. No word if any prisoner has cracked to the p

  December 11, 2008

• Wanna Close Gitmo? Great. Now Who's Going to Take All These Prisoners?

  As we prepare for the dawning of the age of Obama in exactly two weeks, this weekend provided another reminder it's going to take more than a feel-great election and historic inauguration to clean up the mess of the past eight years.Obama has promised time and again to quickly shutter the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, on the southern coast of Miami's friendly neighbor to the south, and his transition team has already been working hard to figure out how to make it happen. But chief among the

  January 5, 2009

• There Goes the Neighborhood

  February 5, 1992

• Obama's First Act: Closing Gitmo (But Don't Say Farewell Just Yet)

  The prez-elect electrified the newswires yesterday when word leaked he plans to issue an executive order during his first week in office -- and maybe his first day -- officially shutting down the detention camps at Guantánamo Bay.But before you start planning those Gitmo V-Day parades, Obama sounded a more cautious note this morning. Miami's favorite international disgrace to the south isn't actually going to close anytime soon, no matter what orders Obama tosses off on his first afternoon in t

  January 13, 2009

• News Roundup

  In perhaps the most important news ever, Riptide and all its sister blogs got some work done. Everyone knows you've gotta go under the knife once in a while in this town to keep up.Obama promises to close Gitmo, sometime. No sure when, but he'll get around to it. [CBS4]Charlie Crist gets mixed mid-term marks from The Herald. [Naked Politics]Here's some news that global warming denial-ists are sure to take out of context: Florida actually had colder than average temperature in 2008. [NBC6]But wai

  January 12, 2009

• News Roundup

  President Obama found time to call up Gitmo and say, "Yo, can we just chill for a minute?" and all proceedings were instantly frozen. [Herald]Police finally caught this horrible baby-punching would-be car thief. [NBC6]Here are all sorts of pictures from the inaugural balls. Do we like Michelle's dress? Do we like Kanye's red microphone? [Gawker]Look what all of these bleeding-heart, peacenik liberals did to D.C. They have absolutely trashed it. [Wonektte]Randy Shannon is not content with sucking

  January 21, 2009

• The Last Days of Guantanamo Bay

  This morning President Obama signed the order to close Guantanamo, as he has been promising to do for weeks, but it is unlikely the doors to the detention center will close anytime soon. That's because no one is sure what to do with the 250 or so people still detained there. An estimated 100 detainees may not be prosecutable for any specific offense but are too dangerous to release. Legal experts are divided over what should be done with them; the options range from sending them to other countri

  January 22, 2009

• New Gitmo Policies, Same as the Old Gitmo Policies?

  It is common knowledge among conservative bloggers that the mainstream media was totally in the tank for Barack Obama during the whole election, but now that he's actually president, it seems they don't really know what to do with themselves. So they've reverted back to the only thing they've known for the past eight years: trying to undermine the president at every turn with their dastardly methods of reporting and analysis. Politico's top story today is titled, "Why the Gitmo policies may no

  January 23, 2009

• Gitmo Status Quo: Inside the Camps, You'd Never Know Obama Is Closing The Place

  Past the scowling Puerto Rican National Guard sentries and razor-wire fences, down a rutted gravel road into the heart of Guantánamo Bay's Camp Delta detention facility, Army Col. Bruce Vargo bursts with gusto into an air-conditioned double-wide trailer. In Washington, the ink has barely dried on President Obama's order officially closing this place. But for Vargo and his legion of Gitmo guards on the Cuban waterfront, nothing has changed. "Look, we are responsible for the safe, humane, and t

  January 27, 2009

• Birth of a Notion

  August 12, 1992

• News Roundup

  Oh, look, an update from our old friends the sex offenders under the bridge. It's nice to hear from them every once in a while. [NBC6]It is going to get really, really cold this weekend. [CBS4]Fidel Castro wants Obama to give back Guantánamo Bay. [NBC6]Some dumb kid accidentally shot his friend in the leg on a bus. [CBS4]Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was in Miami Beach talking up the stimulus package. [Herald]DJ Laz's morning show has helped raise $50,000 to cover funeral costs for three young

  January 30, 2009

• Inside Little Haiti

  May 5, 1993

• The Stain of Gitmo: "We Destroyed People's Lives."

  Tomorrow on newsstands, we tell the story of Omar Khadr, who is the youngest detainee at Guantanamo, the only Westerner, and a symbol of sorts. To some, he is exhibit A for all that is wrong with America's War on Terror. For others, he's an example of why the camp exists in the first place. For us, he's representative of the biggest problem President Obama faces in closing the detention facility within a year: what to do with those detainees left at the camp who have indisputable terrorist ties.

  February 24, 2009

• One Lawyer's Fight to Change Guantanamo Bay -- At the Expense of His Career

  Maj. Tom Fleener was enjoying a quiet life as an assistant public defender in Wyoming when he was thrust into the greatest legal conundrum of our times.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsFleener, an Army Reservist, became more and more outraged as he read about the military commissions set up in Guantanamo Bay for the "enemy combatants" held there. In particular, he couldn't believe the detainees were forced to accept pro bono military lawyers even when they wanted to represent themselves.He was so outra

  February 25, 2009

• Where's Omar Khadr Going? Not Back to Canada Anytime Soon

  As President Obama tries to keep his pledge to close Gitmo by next January, his biggest challenge -- as told in-depth in your New Times this very week -- is figuring out what to do with guys like Omar Khadr. Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsKhadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay and the only Westerner, is both a symbol of the War on Terror's most egregious failures (he was captured at age 15 and probably tortured in Bagram and Gitmo) and its most lasting problems (if he wasn't already radical,

  March 2, 2009

• Miss Universe Says Guantanamo Bay Is 'Fun,' 'Calm,' and 'Relaxing'

  Well, the gig is up. Thanks a lot, reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza.See, in the cover story on my trip to Guantanamo Bay a couple of months ago, I did my best to convey my impressions of the infamous prison camp as an unforgiving, desolate way station where detainees were routinely tortured and justice is hard to come by. Now the beautiful Venezuelan has ruined everything by revealing the truth: Gitmo is freaking awesome.Mendoza visited the prison camps and U.S. Naval base on a USO-organiz

  March 31, 2009

• The Making of an Exclusive

  September 14, 1995

• Letters from the Issue of March 5, 2009

  "Let him foolishly make money off of these animals, and we'll mop up the mess when something tragic finally happens."

  March 5, 2009

• Alberto Mora: Profile in Cojones

  February 26, 2009

• Guantanamo's Final Days

  February 26, 2009

• Gitmo Status Quo

  The day Obama signed an order to close Guantánamo Bay, it was business as usual inside the camps.

  January 29, 2009

• Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho

  January 8, 2009

• In Carlos, We Trust

  May 15, 2008

• Absurdistan

  The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.

  April 24, 2008

• Let's Go to Prison

  Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.

  April 24, 2008

• Italian Connection

  November 30, 1995

• The Cuban Contender

  July 19, 2007

• Letters from the Issue of June 15, 2006

  June 15, 2006

• Pearl of the Antilles

  June 8, 2006

• Current Art Shows

  January 6, 2005

• Best Spanish-Language Production

  May 17, 2001

• Fancy Footwork

  November 30, 2000

• Cuba's Second Revolution

  February 18, 1999

• Freedom Fighters

  September 19, 1996

• Buy-Buy Guantanamo!

  November 23, 1995

• Immigrate Expectations

  February 2, 1995

• Reach Out and Really Touch Someone

  January 26, 1995

• No Peace for Paula

  May 4, 1994

• Turns Out U.S. Interrogators Went Waterboard Crazy in Gitmo

  When we toured and wrote about Guantánamo Bay a couple of months ago, the military had already tossed out any pretense that waterboarding and other torture techniques had been used on inmates. But no one really knew how often the military and the CIA decided to violate the Geneva Conventions and hundreds of years of U.S. tradition. via Wikimedia CommonsWell, we have our answer today, thanks to Justice Department memos ordered released by President Obama. And it's not pretty.CIA interrogators wa

  April 20, 2009

• To Serve and Nut-Check

  April 30, 2009

• Obama Decides to Keep Grotesque Parody of Justice For Gitmo Detainees

  When I visited Guantanamo Bay a few months ago, I caught what looked like the last act in the long, sordid miscarriage of justice President Bush called the military tribunal system. Hope you weren't looking for a fair trial, boys.There were so many outrageous problems with Bush's plan for trying suspected terrorists, it's hard to know where to start.  The evidence, which is so mismanaged that whole case files have been lost in the Pentagon? The

  May 15, 2009

• Senate Withholds Funds to Close Guantanamo Bay

  Barry BlandPrisoners in Guantanamo BayThe Senate voted against providing $80 million to shut down Guantanamo Bay 90 to 6 today. The move comes a day before President Obama is scheduled to outline his plans for what to do with the 240 terrorism suspects held in Cuba. The provision also temporarily barred the transport of the suspects to American soil. "Guantánamo makes us less safe. However, this is neither the time nor the bill to deal with this. Democrats under no circumstances will

  May 20, 2009

• Gitmo Terrorists Are Coming to Your Back Yard! And to the Tiny Island Nation of Palau?

  As we reported in February after a visit to Guantánamo Bay, President Obama faces some pretty damn thorny decisions as he tries to close the notorious prison camp in southeastern Cuba, none tougher than what the heck to do with all the prisoners. via Wikimedia Commons.Soon coming to a backyard near you.The logical solution -- bring them to the U.S. for a fair trial -- has been destroyed by an idiot Congress kowtowing to ignorant hometown concerns about terrorists coming to the States. Bowi

  June 10, 2009

• Cat Killer Brings out Miami's Feline-Lovin' Sadists

  Watch more Comedy Central videos on AOL Video So on Sunday, cops arrested the alleged cat killer, a clean-cut kid who likes to blow shit up and has friends that call him "niggercake" but otherwise seems nice enough. The exposure of Tyler Weinman has simply given a face to the impromptu "How Would the Cat Killer Be Punished in a Perfect World?" discussion raging in the comments section of every online article about the developing story. And, wow, Miamians are capable of some violent fantasies

  June 16, 2009

• Musicians Demand Classified Gitmo Memos On How Their Tunes Were Used As Torture

  Of all the outrages perpetrated at Guantanamo Bay -- which New Times explored in depth earlier this year on our visit to the prison camp in southern Cuba -- one of the strangest has to be the military's music-based "futility technique."via Wikimedia Commons​In case you've succeeded in washing the stain of Gitmo from your memory, Army interrogators came up with a whole laundry list of disturbing "enhanced interrogation methods" -- also known as "torture" to the non-military among us -- to try t

  October 22, 2009