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| U.S. Mission in Cuba Runs Rights Messages | |
| 2006-01-17 | |
Evidently timed to coincide with the U.S. holiday, the messages streaming along the building's fifth floor in luminescent red also included the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although the new messaging system was activated earlier in the day, neighbors said the words really weren't visible until the sun set. Even then, the words were difficult to read. "They are provoking us again," said neighbor Miguel Angel Fernandez, who said he first noticed the words from his bathroom window Monday night. "I don't know why they mess with us, we don't mess with them." More than a year ago, the Cuban government erected billboards outside the mission emblazoned with photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a "Made in the U.S.A" stamp. Those signs were erected in retaliation for holiday decorations placed on the building for Christmas 2004 that included a sign reading "75" - a reference to the 75 Cuban dissidents jailed in March 2003. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |