Breaking: Cuba moves to block US electronic message board

[Mika]

Cuba moves to block US electronic message board
http://www.localnewsleader.com/brocktown/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=130533
25 January, 2006

HAVANA- Bulldozers dug up a street in front of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana on Wednesday apparently preparing to block the view of an electronic billboard carrying human rights messages that has angered President Fidel Castro .

Brigades of workers began the task on Tuesday night, hours after Castro and hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched past the mission to protest against the five-foot-high (1.5- meter) ticker that streams messages across the facade of the U.S. Interests Section.

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The ticker across the 25 windows of the fifth floor of the Interests Section on Havana‘s Malecon waterfront is a new salvo in a decades-old propaganda war between Washington and Havana.

Last year Cuba set up billboards with pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners at the site in reply to a Christmas decoration displaying the number of dissidents jailed in a political crackdown.

On Tuesday, Castro called U.S. diplomats "cockroaches" and accused the government of President George W. Bush President George W. Bush of seeking a new crisis between the United States and Cuba with "perfidious" provocations.

Never mind that it is the US that enforces a travel ban on Americans from going to Cuba, and denies travel visas for Cubans wishing to travel to the USA, the idiots at the US interests section in Havana state that "It is very clear that the Cuban government is building a wall to cut off dialogue".

[John Q. Citizen]

1. That's a monologue, not a dialogue.

[truthisfreedom]

2. it would be cheaper to just wash it out with very bright searchlights.

rather than build and ugly wall. i mean, i'm not trying to give them any ideas or anything, but if it was me, that's what i would do.

[Mika]

3. They don't want to waste electricity/fuel on such US stupidity. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. What a joke. Using the word "dialogue" as if his government hasn't had

Cuba under a crushing embargo for 45 years or more, as if his President hasn't cut off all visits from Cuban Americans to see their relatives and vacation in Cuba, other than once every three years, even if their relatives are critically ill, as if his President isn't protecting a Cuban "exile" mass murderer/bomber/CIA idiot from justice, as if his pResident hasn't been threatening Cuba every day he has been in his stolen pResidency.

As for the "news from the world" ticker tape headlines, Cubans do just fine, receiving tv and radio stations from the States, as well as reading material from all over the world, and movies from everywhere, and tv and radio from Central and South America and other Caribbean islands, as well as direct dialogue with all the tourists/scholars/specialists/athletes/workers from the entire REST OF THE WORLD.

The old Interests Section head, James Cason gibbered ominously before he left Cuba that the next one coming down the pike was far rougher than he was. :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:



James Cason, recent Interests Section head

[Mika]

5. Black is now white.

For the US to be displaying quotes from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights while water boarding permanent "enemy combatants" just a few miles away is simply incredulous.

[LynnTheDem]

6. Cuba DOES still belong to CUBA and not the USA, yes? The US mission IS

still a GUEST in Cuba, yes?

Any wonder most the world has a poor opinion of Americans?

[bigworld]

7. The US interests section is technically in the Swiss Embassy,

right? I'm surprised the Swiss don't restrain us a bit.

[K-W]

8. Gee its almost like people dont want to be occupied by us. EOM

[CornField]

9. You know what's ironic and sad?

Little ole Cuba and aging Fidel Castero have more balls than the American people.

[Mika]

10. Why ironic? Mr Castro stood up against the US since 1958.

Actually, before that.. but in 1958/59 he led a revolution that kicked out a US backed, blood-soaked henchman's regime. Mr Castro made conciliatory gestures to Eisenhower but Eisenhower sent Nixon to tell Castro to F off.

Then Mr Castro led the Cuban military in the successful defense against the US invasion at the Bay of Pigs.

He is Cuba's living revolutionary hero.

Fidel Castro has had serious balls since he was a young man.. and still does.

[Ben Ceremos]

11. Capitalist history

will always condemn the revolutionary heroes that rise up to defend the people's interests. Fidel is a dictator in the strictest sense, but he is defending a revolution that has been under attack since day one. I regret the necessity of the dictatorship; it will wither when the USA stops it's illegal embargo, an act of war in actuality. The actions of the American government are childish intimidation. Fidel should ask the Cuban people to build a dome over the US Interests section, then fill it with water and sharks...just daydreaming.


Venceremos!!!