Today, public opinion on the former Guantanamo inmates has shifted, and even the former Uruguayan president who negotiated the prisoner release now says receiving the men was simply the price his country needed to pay in order to keep “selling oranges to the United States” and maintain good ties. 
Leo, mtazamo wa jamii kuhusu wafungwa wa zamani wa Guantanamo umebadilika na hata raisi wa zamani wa Uruguai aliyejadili kuhusu uhuru wa wafungwa hao kwa sasa anasema kuwa, kuwapokea hao watu ilikuwa ndio gharama nchi yake ilipaswa kulipa ili iweze kuendelea "kuuza machungwa nchini Marekani" na kuimarisha mahusiano mema.