Courtesy of Sarah Mirk
A composite image showing items for sale in a US Navy gift shop in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is known as being home to the US military detention camp accused of perpetrating human-rights abuses on prisoners.
- But life on the US naval base, surprisingly, resembles an American suburban town, and residents there don't like talking about the prison, journalist Sarah Mirk said.
- It even has a souvenir shop that sells T-shirts, beer koozies, Frisbee discs, and mugs with "Straight Outta GTMO" written on them.
- Take a look at the bizarre gift shop through Mirk's photos.
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Less than five miles from the Guantanamo Bay military camp, where inmates are allegedly abused and tortured, is a gift shop that sells themed T-shirts, beer koozies, and mugs that say: "Straight Outta GTMO."
The gift store has existed since at least 2015, when The New York Times Magazine published photos of the souvenirs sold there at the time.
Take a look at what the gift shop looks like now in these photos taken by journalist Sarah Mirk. She visited the store in April and is currently writing a book about the base.