El Faro newspaper warns that Trump's plans for a "new Guantánamo" in El Salvador amount to giving land away to the United States at a moment when Washington's attempts to reclaim the Panama Canal are opening old wounds.

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Maybe if we shut down the old Guantanamo (and jailed the human rights abusers who ran "enhanced interrogation techniques" during W's admin) we wouldn't have this problem now...

Another Guantánamo? The first one is already a human rights stain. What protections would even be in place?