MONTEVIDEO, Jumada I 20, 1435, Mar 21, 2014, SPA -- Uruguay has asked the United States to free Cuban prisoners as a gesture in return for the South American country agreeing to accept detainees from the much-criticized Guantanamo detention center, President Jose Mujica said on Friday, Reuters reported. Uruguay said on Thursday that at Washington's request it would take some inmates from the U.S. military base of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been used since 2002 to hold people captured after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Mujica said in his weekly radio broadcast on Friday that he had asked for Cubans on U.S. soil to be released in exchange. -- SPA 20:12 LOCAL TIME 17:12 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1212176