Cuba rejects U.S. decision to incarcerate migrants in illegal Guantanamo Naval Base

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The Cuban government on Wednesday rejected the decision announced by U.S. President Donald Trump to hold migrants at the illegal Guantanamo Naval Base, which it has occupied since 1903 in the east of the country. teleSUR

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00:00Cuba rejects on Wednesday the decision announced by the U.S. President Donald Trump to use

00:04the Guantanamo Naval Base to incarcerate tens of thousands of migrants he has proposed to

00:11forcibly expel.

00:13A committee from Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed that this decision is a

00:17demonstration of the brutality with which Washington is acting to the supposedly corrupt

00:23problems created by the economic and social conditions of the country.

00:27The document also indicates that many of the people the U.S. is expelling or intends

00:32to expel are victims of the government's own plundering policies and field labor, fields

00:37that have strictly exceeded in agriculture, construction, industry, services and various

00:44sectors of the U.S. economy.

00:46For the more than a million regs, a note explains that the territory where Washington intends

00:50to lock them up does not belong to the U.S.

00:53It is a portrait of Cuban territory which reminds him literally occupied illegally and

00:59against the will of the Cuban nation.

01:01Finally, it points out that the responsible use of that place would generate a scenario

01:07of risk and insecurity in the illegal clave and its surroundings.

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