Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
With the closure of the Guantanamo prison camp, Barack Obama seeks to give a new international image to the U.S. government, trying to show how different is his administration from the government of George W. Bush.
But Obama's plan for Guantanamo does not specify what will be done with the more than 200 people arrested for their links with Al Qaeda, where they will be brought, what are their names, which legal system applies and under what charges they were arrested.
Accordingly, the Obama's decision to close Guantanamo, what appears is simply a symbol that does not solve the real flaws of these arrests.
Closing Guantanamo, without legalizing the status of its detainees, is not exactly what we would call a change in the Bush's methods and take into account the views of the rest of the world, as Obama promised in his campaign.
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