Politics
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is willing to receive prisoners from Guantánamo detention center and wished Washington to return to Cuba the territory where the US naval base is located.

"We do not mind receiving a human being," said Chávez during an interview on Wednesday with Qatari TV network Al Jazeera, including questions from the local audience, Efe quoted.

President Chávez clarified, however, that his country has played no role in the prison dismantling and the possibility of some inmates being transferred to other nations in the short and medium terms.

The president, who attended the Second South American-Arab Summit (ASPA) held in Qatar on Tuesday, said he expected that the new US President Barack Obama will release all the prisoners from Guantánamo "and return to Cuba the Guantánamo Bay and end with that miserable prison."