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Castro slams new US ‘provocations’ in diplo-row
Khaleej Times ^ | 21 January 2006 | AFP

Posted on 01/22/2006 1:49:04 PM PST by njpa

HAVANA - The United States has launched a glaring new chapter in its diplomatic fight with Cuba: an electronic screen broadcasting messages -snip- The electronic screen perched on the fifth floor level of the six-storey US Interests Section in Havana broadcasts in crimson letters more than a meter (three feet) high.

Last Monday and Tuesday it began broadcasting the UN Declaration of Human Rights, thoughts of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and news, as stunned passersby watched on Havana’s storied seafront.

snip Castro, 79, also charged the United States was “planning to break the migratory accords” reached with the US government of Bill Clinton in 1994. He did not elaborate.

snip Castro on December 23 called US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “mad” after having condemned the new head of the US diplomatic mission in Havana as a “little gangster”.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castro
Do this world wide
1 posted on 01/22/2006 1:49:05 PM PST by njpa
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To: njpa
We're FINALLY getting it! Very creative and much needed.

Well put - post #1.

2 posted on 01/22/2006 1:53:42 PM PST by NordP (Karl Rove's b-day is Dec 25th. It seems a great carpenter values a good architect ;-)
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To: njpa

Good. Let's give Fidel a massive heart attack.


3 posted on 01/22/2006 1:54:51 PM PST by CAWats
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To: njpa

Did Harry Belafonte write this speech for Castro?


4 posted on 01/22/2006 5:31:04 PM PST by Flifuss
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To: njpa

bump


5 posted on 01/22/2006 6:56:42 PM PST by RippleFire ("It's a joke, son!")
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