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Guantanamo Bay, Part One: An Origin Story

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The War on Terror - A Strong Arm Deal

Both of my wife's parents came from the island when the revolution was going down. So i knew a little bit about this after meeting her. You know, it was right after september eleventh and everything. It was a weird thing when you hear that detanes from the war on terror are being kept in cuba. Weirdly enough, for us in an early relationship, it felt like a very coincidental thing. And then also, there's another aspect here f the history. What happened to cuba, portorico, the philippines, quam. This was something that the cuban government was forced to do.

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