{"id":1130,"date":"2025-02-09T21:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T21:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2025-02-09T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T21:59:20","slug":"close-guantanamo-bay-close-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/close-guantanamo-bay-close-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Close Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many people do not know that <strong>Guant\u00e1namo Bay is in Cuba<\/strong>, because the way the media covers Gitmo is as if it is located in a 51st state that is close enough for the U.S. government to access freely, but far enough to take away freedom from others. Close enough for the U.S. to place an embargo on it, far enough to be away from too many witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is <strong>a colonization pattern repeated by the U.S. around the globe<\/strong>. The U.S. has and continues to operate detention and concentration camps around the world and within its core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These camps are wealth-producing, labor-exploiting, human-collateral hubs for the United States. Always built into so-called \u201ctreaties,\u201d the <strong>U.S. never ends wars without land in exchange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guant\u00e1namo Bay\u2019s atrocious history is one of Empire&#8217;s vile human rights abuses against Black and brown people that the U.S. criminalized in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Close Guant\u00e1namo Bay. <strong>Free Cuba<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abolish every U.S. detention camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abolish police and prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abolish and <strong>End Empire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people do not know that Guant\u00e1namo Bay is in Cuba, because the way the media covers Gitmo is as if it is located in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/close-guantanamo-bay-close-empire\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Close Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Close Empire<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":null,"activitypub_content_visibility":"quiet_public","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,79],"tags":[317,316],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonization","category-imperialism","tag-cuba","tag-guantanamo-bay","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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