Guantanamo Inmate Transfer Heats Up into Uruguay Election Controversy

Uruguay President Jose Mujica on Friday rebutted opposition criticism of his decision for the country to accept six Guantanamo Bay prisoners as popular opposition mounts ahead of presidential elections in three weeks time. Leftist, blunt-talking Mujica has called the detention center used to hold terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks a "human disgrace" and accepted a request from the United States to take some inmates so it can be shut down. But a recent poll...

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