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We Are America: Guantánamo, The Aamer Appeal, and the Passion of Andrés Thomas Conteris

November 24, 2013 • by Jeremy Varon

“President Obama, stop the tortuuurrre,” bellowed Andrés Thomas Conteris, as a plastic tube snaked through his nose, down his throat, and into his stomach to deliver a bottle of Ensure nutrients to his starved body. Conteris, months into a grueling fast, voluntarily submitted to the nasogastric feeding in front of ...

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