Guantanamo (Spanish spelling: Guantánamo) is a city in southeast Cuba, capital of the Guantánamo Province. It has about 208,000 inhabitants and most of them live from producing sugarcane and cotton wool.
About 15 km away from the city lies a US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, containing detention centers, currently used for alleged unlawful combatants captured in the War on Terrorism. The detention centers consist of the temporary Camp X-Ray, which is now closed, and the permanent Camp Delta. The american army is also accused by amnesty international of using Guantanamo naval base as a torturing camp.
Guantanamera ("The girl from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song.
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