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pablos-mendez, the assistant administrator from u.s. agency of international development, and he s come here today, several months now into the post, and the president nominated him back in march, and he took up duties in august, and he s been very busy since then. from the early days when ariel began, we hoped to get him here to csis at the right moment to speak to this audience here and beyond to the thinking and the direction of thinking it s been moving within us-aid on the key of global health issues before the bureau as it refines and strengths its on capacities and leadership role in moving forward u.s. interests in global health, and that s what ariel s agreed to do here today, and we re really honored and thrilled that you ve done that. ariel, thank you so much, and we re very pleased at the staff s support that we ve received from aid in pulling this event together. ariel comes from a very distinguished career of almost 1 years at the rockefeller foundation wh ....
miami herald , and she has written extensively about guantanamo bay. good morning. you did a recent story looking at the cost of prisoners, how much it costs to detain people there. every monday, we have a segment called your money, where we look at a program, how much it costs, and how public money is being spent. why did you start looking at the cost of keeping detainee s at guantanamo bay? guest: the miami herald has covered guantanamo bay coming up on 10 years. in july, the administration wrote congress in a letter signed by the dni, the attorney general, and the secretary of defense that this is costing america $800,000 per year per detainee. they compared this to about $25,000 in federal detention. they were doing this as part of a letter talking about the pros and cons of military versus a billion trials and military verses military verses civilian trials and military verses ci ....