In Cuba, the name of the game is full-on, unabashed, flagrant propaganda. Cuban television stations are mostly political. Apparently Castro used to go on television regularly and make 6 hour long speeches. According to our tour guide, Castro is in the Guinness Book of Record for the longest speech! I saw President Chavez of Venezuela doing the exact same thing on television while I was there. The museums are all very biased, telling how Castro single handily won battles etc.
The most interesting propaganda is, of course, about the United States. Around the US embassy they have erected big billboards. One says that Bush + an anti-Castro Cuban terrorist living in Miami = Hitler. Another shows an American trying to scare a Cuban and the Cuban laughing at him. There was a billboard for a fake movie called The Assassins starring a hilariously photoshopped George Bush and the same terrorist guy. The U.S. Embassy which was near my hotel was surrounded by police, we weren't even allowed to stand around outside for more than 30 seconds.
Not to be outdone, the U.S. is getting its own propaganda in. They have cheekily erected a scrolling text screen on the top of the embassy building which comes on at night. Apparently it tells 'the truth' about Castro, such as how he is making large investments in Venezuela while Cuba suffers.
Of course, Castro was not about to just sit by and let the Americans pollute the Cubans minds with this nonsense, so he erected a load of huge black flags on on enormous flagpoles which fly in front of the embassy and block the text screen when looking from a distance. As a result apparently many Cubans climb onto the rooftops of their buildings to read the screen.
Barra's the name and Upper class Flagrancy is the game. I'm an incurable romantic who is seeking any filthy whore. call me.
My name is David but most call me Armours. I'm an economics student in UCD so that may explain some of my more boring ramblings. I like football, computer games, and being a waste. oh, and my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
4 comments:
thats pretty funny about the flags. lada's were everywhere in russia naturally. we had a lada niva which was a pretty cool jeep. all the cars there were either lada's, low budget cars from the 80's or they were very expensive cars that stood out. everybody knew that the mafia owned these and the mafia didnt care. i dont know what its like nowadays, but that was Flagrance
In havana there is a street called 5th avenue which has amazing houses on it. The buildings are either embassies or lived in by members of the communist party. while the population live in shitholes, not very cool.
ladas are awesome
the guy in the billboards with bush is an anti castro militant called Pasado Carilles. he was an absolute dick head, he's bombed civilian planes and killed so many innocent people, and the US are supporting him and giving him refuge there just because he is anti castro.
the thing about the flags is that each each flag represents an American terrorist attack on Cuba. if they represented attempted terrorist attacks (ie attempted assassinations on castro) there would be far more.
Thats interesting. I heard a tiny bit about Carilles, apparently he's written a book called something like "I planted the bomb, so what?"
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