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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The United States, which has been planning for possible waves of fleeing Cubans when Fidel Castro dies, has hired a Florida company to build a temporary complex to hold migrants at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the military said.
Islands Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., has won a $16.5 million contract to build a "migrant operations complex" at the base, a U.S. enclave in eastern Cuba, the U.S. Defense Department said.
The fenced complex would include showers and laundry facilities and is to be finished by May 2008, according to a Defense Department publication that announces contracts.
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