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20 Jun 2005

Author:
Letta Tayler, Newsday.com

It's almost like home [USA/Cuba]

"Will that be 2-percent or whole milk?" the server asked sweetly before frothing up a latte at Starbucks, just down the road from the Subway and Pizza Hut [part of YUM!]...To be sure, Guantanamo is still a desolate spot where the male-female ratio is 23-1...But easing the pain are fast-food restaurants...The base's critics contend that it imposes some of the same police-state techniques that Washington deplores in Cuba. They note that inmates here are detained indefinitely, without charges and with fewer civil liberties than other war prisoners.

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