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...troops in Panama City tightened security and mobilized anti-riot squads today as they prepared to repatriate 7,500 Cubans held there sincelast summer's boatlift crisis. It won't be easy: almost none of the refugees wants to return to the spartan U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and so far, at least 13 have scaled chain-link fences topped by razor wire surrounding the camps, two have drowned trying to swim the Panama canal and another dozen have attempted suicide. (Only 1,171 out of the nearly 8,500 originally brought there from Guantanamo have obtained visas...
Faced with 4,400 Haitians living at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. government today said that any of those refugees who agree by Jan. 5 to return home will get $80 and job opportunities. Those who turn down the offer will be forced to return without the benefits. Most of the remaining Guantanamo refugees -- there were as many as 20,000 before the Haitian military leadership abandoned their posts in September -- are seeking resettlement...
...Guantanamo, however, there is an alternative to rebellion, and that is escape. Seven-foot-high rolls of barbed wire encircle the refugees. Dozens of military policemen monitor their every move, and land mines surround the base. But on average of twice a week, someone wakes up feeling skittish and bolts. According to military officials, 357 refugees, tired of languishing in the dusty, insect-ridden camp, have fled back home. Most of those who attempt to escape have already made official arrangements to be repatriated. The Cuban government has been accepting only 25 people a week...
...Cuban boat people is that many of those who risked their lives to get to the U.S. aboard rickety, homemade craft are taking to the water again. This time, though, they are heading back to Cuba. They lay their cots over the barbed wire that blocks their path to Guantanamo Bay. If they reach the water and swim to the other side, they'll be in Cuban territory...
...haven't tried to escape yet, but I'm going to," said Elsa Quintero, 44, a grandmother who fled Cuba on a raft and has been in detention at Guantanamo since Aug. 28. "The 25th of December is a date I'd like to celebrate, and I'll walk across minefields if I have...