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Cuba places torture billboards in front of US diplomatic HQ
Rough translation from the Spanish language original:

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba unfolded two gigantic billboards on Friday in front of the United States diplomatic headquarters in the island, with photographs of the tortures in the Abu Ghraib prison of Iraq and the word "Fascistas" together with a Nazi swastika.

The images were put up after Cuba demanded that the United States Interests Section in Cuba take down a Christmas billboard with a shining ornament that says "75," in allusion to the dissidents imprisoned by the Cuban government in 2003. The billboards unfolded by Cuba show Iraqi prisoners bleeding and hooded during torture by soldiers in Abu Ghraib with a caption that says "Made in Usa" in the middle of the high-traffic Malecón of Havana.

Three days ago, James Cason, chief of the US Interests Section in Havana, declared that president Fidel Castro was threatening the diplomatic office with reprisals by saying that "there would be consequences" if they did not take down the billboard referring to the imprisoned dissidents. Reuters observed on Friday morning the work of unfolding the billboards in front of the North American Special Interests section.

I remember Fidel on the Jack Parr show
he was a hero overhere back in 59 or sixty
stayed in a beat hotel in Spanish Harlem while he was here, kept chickens in his room.
Then he went home and the executions started, seemed like it was anyone who wore a shirt and tie. Lawyers, editors, doctors even.

You know who I miss from litkicks I think I have seen him here once maybe, a limey brat with tented pants, bennie, he used to love to post pictures of people burning the stars and stripes, he used to think it smelled sweet, I tried to tell him burning plastic flags don't smell that good. The first picture I remember of him from the litkicks vanity board was a kid on couch wearing a Che T-shirt.

My old friend Bob McLane, was in Vietnam, Marines at Danang....one day he was late for formation so they inspected his tent. There they found pictures of Lyndon B Johnson and Ho Chi Minh side by side with the caption, "WANTED FOR WAR CRIMES" on the tent wall....they sent him out....tp the field
Now he has a website.
http://www.norespectpublishing.com/