Cubans held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay ended their hunger strike Friday after learning that they would receive visas to go to the U.S., Hungary or a third country, a Miami-based exile group said according to AP. The 17 Cubans were entering their 20th day of a hunger strike to protest their conditions and Washington's refusal to let them settle in the United States, said Ramon Saul Sanchez, head of the group Democracy Movement, which has long supported those seeking to leave Cuba. «They called me, and they were in a circle passing the phone,» he said. «They were thanking us. They were very happy.» The hunger strikers are among 44 Cubans picked up by U.S. Coast Guard officials at sea. Because U.S. authorities deemed the migrants at risk of persecution if they returned to Cuba, they were held at the base while officials sought a third country to take them. Many were dissidents, and some had been at the base for more than two years.
