MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The southern edge of South America seems an unlikely home for six men who have spent more than a decade locked up without charge at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The prisoners, who are likely to be released soon, have been offered a refuge in Uruguay, where President Jose Mujica agreed as a humanitarian gesture to accept men that the U.S. has decided do not pose a threat but cannot return to their homelands. Here, they will find few fellow Muslims and a country divided over their pending arrival.