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Song of Guantanamo Bay

We have come back from hell
Back from Guantanamo Bay

Our heads off our shoulders
Holding our heads in our hands we came
Back from Guantanamo Bay

We were tortured night & day
Back in Guantanamo Bay

Till our eyes dropped from their sockets
and our hearts missed their beats
Back in Guantanamo Bay

Which awful crime had we committed?
No one answered no one said
no one near no one human
Back in Guantanamo Bay

Still we prayed in utter silence
Back in Guantanamo Bay

Could not touch nor feel
Could not walk nor smell
Could nothing but pray
Back in Guantanamo Bay

In our orange overalls
No one near no one human
Back in Guantanamo Bay

In those cells or senseless shells
as time melted in eternity
no one answered no one near
Damned in Guantanamo Bay

Were you made of flesh or stone?
Were you human, was this Earth?
Executioners passed by
Back in Guantanamo Bay...

Some returned alive and kicking
Out of Guantanamo Bay
But we're dead and still remember:
Damned be Guantanamo Bay



Amparo Perez Gutierrez


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Who can deny that there are a great number of prisoners in Cuba
suffering the most severe jail condition existing in today's world? For
them there is neither day nor night because they are blindfolded and in
complete darkness. Their ears are also plugged and they remain in
complete silence. They are deprived of all tactile sensations because
their hands are covered with a kind of gloves. There are hundreds of
prisoners whose names have not been published and nobody knows what they
are accused of. They have not been put on trial much less sentenced.
Furthermore, they have no attorney and are serving limitless terms.

These are prisoners in Cuba who are not in jail because of Fidel Castro
but are instead prisoners of President Bush in Guantanamo (US Naval
Base). They are in individual cells and dressed with red suits that we
have all seen, but we know no more about them. Since they are Bush's
prisoners and not Fidel Castro's, the US press says nothing about them.

Quotation from Ernesto Cardenal
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