{"id":5729,"date":"2016-03-21T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T12:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2016-03-23T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T11:40:27","slug":"william-rowlandson-article-on-guantanamo-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/03\/21\/william-rowlandson-article-on-guantanamo-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"William Rowlandson article on Guant\u00e1namo Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/rowlandson.html\"> Dr William Rowlandson, <\/a>Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a> has had an article entitled \u2018Explainer: the long, complicated history of the US at Guant\u00e1namo\u00a0Bay\u2019 published online by\u00a0<em>The Conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Conversation<\/em> is a collaboration between editors and academics to provide informed news analysis and commentary that\u2019s free to read and publish and was launched in Australia in 2011 and in the UK in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In the article William, looks at the history of Guant\u00e1namo Bay against the back drop of President Barack Obama\u2019s visit to Cuba, which has been heralded as a \u201cnew beginning\u201d for Washington and Havana. The American embassy in the Cuban capital has been reopened, and travel restrictions for US citizens are being relaxed. But despite their so-called \u2018thaw\u2019, the US\u2019s relationship with Cuba is still deeply tangled. It has been since the 19th century &#8211;\u00a0and central to the two countries&#8217; ugly history is Guant\u00e1namo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The full article is available at:<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/explainer-the-long-complicated-history-of-the-us-at-guantanamo-bay-53922\"> https:\/\/theconversation.com\/explainer-the-long-complicated-history-of-the-us-at-guantanamo-bay-53922<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr William Rowlandson, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, in the Department of Modern Languages has had an article entitled \u2018Explainer: the long, complicated history of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/03\/21\/william-rowlandson-article-on-guantanamo-bay\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":5743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}