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noun
El gobierno norteamericano ha venido aplicando la llamada política de "pies secos, pies mojados".
The US authorities have continued to apply the "wet foot-dry foot" policy.
Esa política a veces recibe el nombre de "política de los pies secos, pies mojados".
This policy is sometimes referred to as the "wet foot, dry foot policy".
noun
Dice que entre ellas figuran el aumento de las agresiones, inclusive las sexuales, la disminución de la calidad de vida y del sentimiento de seguridad, el hecho de obligar a no fumadores a compartir la celda con fumadores, el hecho de poner a personas con enfermedades contagiosas junto con personas sanas y la necesidad de utilizar un retrete situado a un metro de los pies de la cama y a plena vista del otro ocupante.
Such effects are said to include increased incidents of assault, including sexual assault, a decrease in the quality of life and feeling of safety, non-smokers forced to share cells with smokers, persons with communicable diseases placed in cells with persons with no diseases, and having to go to the toilet in the cell one metre from the bottom of the bed and in full view of the other occupant.
Declara que fue interrogado durante dos días y luego torturado con métodos como golpear la planta de los pies.
He states that he was interrogated for two days, and then tortured by methods such as beating on the bottom of the
De pies a cabeza extraterritorial, por ser pensada y aplicada contra otro Estado soberano con el que hipócritamente se afirma no estar en guerra, es, a la vez, extraterritorial contra el resto del mundo, al que también pretende imponer la jurisdicción estrecha de un torpe artefacto jurídico nacional.
It is extraterritorial from top to bottom, because it was conceived and implemented against another sovereign State, with which they hypocritically maintain they are not at war; at the same time, it is extraterritorial against the rest of the world, upon which they are attempting to impose the narrow jurisdiction of a clumsy national legal artifice.
Le golpearon los pies con la porra de uno de los guardias y otros reclusos le golpearon siguiendo órdenes de los mismos.
The bottoms of his feet were struck by a guard's baton, and other inmates struck him on the guards' orders.
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