I shouldn't post this as the Mods don't like excessive sax and violins, but since you asked:
Seriously though, CNN wasn't trying to post a cheerful good news story with this? Guess I'm out of the mainstream not using airports and all.
Posted on 03/12/2025 10:49:42 AM PDT by ransomnote
With his hands and feet handcuffed, tied leg to leg with other detainees, José Daniel Simancas Rodríguez was put on a plane. He says he was told he would go to Miami.
Hours later, when they landed, Simancas and his fellow passengers were transferred to a bus with the windows covered by bags. By then he already suspected where he had arrived: Guantanamo. What he did not imagine was that this was just the beginning of a nightmare that would last 15 days.
Simancas was one of 177 Venezuelans deported by the United States who had been transferred to the US naval base in Cuba, a measure criticized by human rights organizations who say the base is not appropriate for housing migrants.
He says he can attest to these complaints: in the place where they locked him up, there was barely a sheet and pillow, they gave him almost no food and he was completely isolated, Simancas told CNN. The only sound that accompanied him during what he describes as “hell” were the screams of the other prisoners. The experience was so unbearable that, he says, he even thought about suicide.
Although at some point he had been told that he would be deported, the 30-year-old Venezuelan feared that he would never see his five children again. “I had already completely given up,” he recalls.
According to UNHCR, almost 8 million people have left Venezuela since 2014 as a result of the political, economic and social crisis in the South American nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Are you paying attention Deep Staters? There’s a reason Trump picked “It’s fun to stay at the YMCA” to play at rallies. The Guantanamo prison is now where a YMCA use to be.
Illegal goes to jail who knew. /s
being afraid he would never see his 5 children again
== == ==
Sounds like he makes a lot of them.
Can he make a bunch more?
I shouldn't post this as the Mods don't like excessive sax and violins, but since you asked:
Seriously though, CNN wasn't trying to post a cheerful good news story with this? Guess I'm out of the mainstream not using airports and all.
If he thinks that was bad he should try spending 15 days in a nursing home for the elderly anywhere in the US.
Or 15 days in a county jail.
2014.
Mauro sent tons of Venezuelans to flood our borders as a coordinated Axis of Evil effort to help distract the US by increasing pressure on the US at home.
I tried to look up flights to Caracas on Kayak but Kayak said it could show me the results because of regulations.
There are no pillows in our county jail, lol. No sheets, because people might hang themselves. You do get a really ugly blanket that looks like it was woven from the tails of several mangy, discolored horses, and you get to eat from a tray that looks to be made from recycled plastic oil pans. The food sucks, and often includes a bag of reconstituted powdered milk that somewhat resembles a very chintzy silicon breast implant.
And, preschoolers usually don’t get pillows at naptime either, usually just a thin mat.
But, the county jails and the preschools usually give out at least a cookie, so there is that.
good observation, lol
“According to UNHCR, almost 8 million people have left Venezuela since 2014 as a result of the political, economic and social crisis in the South American nation.”
They wanted socialism and that’s what they got.
Duh phuk I care
You like a little beach
That you qualified for detention at Guantanomo tells me all I need to know about you
Oh, hogwash. First he claims he got almost no food, but later states he received three plates of food a day which he claims wasn’t enough.
He sounds tough enough to handle 15 days in Gitmo. Even if the food wasn't good, and there was only one pillow.
He broke our laws. 15 days confinement is a slap on the wrist. WE gave him 15 days of quiet self-reflection, intermingled with intermittent fasting.
But he’s great for advertising.
Why is KSM still alive?
Imagine the effect on the crime rate with all of these guys headed out of country.
!Ay,pobrecita!
(Poor little thing)
Oh, fry me a lizard.
Good spread the news. If we have to come for you, this is your fate. So leave now and go back where you came from...
| In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled ‘You are there and you are not alive’: the harsh testimony of a deported Venezuelan who spent 15 days in Guantanamo, wizardoz wrote: |
| ...he arrived illegally in the United States in May 2024 by passing through the dangerous Darien jungle... he lived in Ecuador until 2022 and then spent time in Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico while continuing his journey north. He sounds tough enough to handle 15 days in Gitmo. Even if the food wasn't good, and there was only one pillow. |
I kept thinking that he doesn't look like he couldn't handle tough conditions and/or GITMO. He said he was hungry, but that was 3 weeks ago and he appears to be a proper weight.
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