Saturday, January 21, 2006

us practice what they preach

US message screen angers Castro
21 January 2006
aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8EC36E3B-8D59-4E05-8F71-1EDBB1807025.htm

US message screen in Havana angers CastroThe US has taken a new direct route to getting its message across in Cuba and has been accused of provocation by Fidel Castro. An electronic screen perched on the fifth floor of the six-storey US Interests Section (USIS) in Havana projects messages in crimson letters more than a metre high.On Monday and Tuesday it began broadcasting the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the thoughts of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and the latest news, to surprised passers by on Havana's seafront.

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