For a group of ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees now living in Uruguay things have gone from bad to not much better.

On Wednesday, Uruguay's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa stated that, when President Jose Mujica, who is no longer in office, first welcomed six newly freed Guantanamo detainees and 42 Syrians to his country it was an act that lacked any foresight, according to the Associated Press. 

The detainees were released from the U.S. military prison back in December after having served almost 13 years in Guantanamo Bay for their supposed ties to the al-Qaida terrorist organization.

Nin Novoa, who was talking to local radio, said: "It was a decision that in all sincerity was not properly foreseen and not properly carried out."

Since coming to Uruguay the former prisoners have not done particularly well. On April 23, four of the ex-detainees started a demonstration in front of the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, expressing their unhappiness with their circumstances and the limited amount of aid Uruguay's government had offered them.

They also argued that the United States should offer them assistance as well.

Initially, the six released Guantanamo Bay prisoners were placed in a four-bedroom house in Uruguay's capital of Montevideo, but a few men from the group sought more privacy and checked into a budget hotel a few months back.

The protests have been ongoing, and the foreign minister announced that he feels he is close to reaching a deal with the men, saying: "I'm confident that there will be a solution."

The protests could effect whether or not Uruguay agrees to take in more ex-detainees in the future, as well as serve as a cautionary note to neighboring nations planning to do the same. As reported in the Christian Science Monitor, Mark Jones, the director of the Political Science department at Rice University, believes that the protest controversy “is definitely going to make it harder” for nearby countries to want to accept ex-detainees in the future.