HAVANA, December 20 (Amarilis Cortina Rey, Cuba- Verdad / www.cubanet.org) -
Police agents in central Havana got busy recently removing a large sign that
read "We are building Socialism here" after an impromptu garbage dump
growing at the street corner where the sign was displayed rendered its
propaganda message counterproductive.
Garbage accumulations in city streets are an increasingly common sight in
Havana, due mostly to shortages of fuel to power the garbage pick-up trucks. In
this case, the dump, adjacent to a produce market, grew inconveniently close to
the sign.
Another large police operation was directed against graffiti that showed up
at a truck depot in the Havana municipality of Arroyo Naranjo. It read, "We'd
rather have Bush accompanied by blood than Fidel accompanied by hunger."
The anonymous author was likely tweaking fun at a recent Cuban government
propaganda campaign according to which the U. S. war against terrorism is a
bloody war against the people of Afghanistan.
"Many police came to take down the sign that appeared in the truck
depot, but before doing so they photographed it for, as they said, handwriting
analysis," said a depot employee who wanted to remain anonymous.
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