In the AP story on the 50th anniversary cited below, it is mentioned that the billboards facing the U.S. Interests Section were taken down. They had, to put it mildly, anti-Bush messages on them. Was it a hurricane precaution, or a political decision?
interesting. Yeah, as US citizen who detests imperialism even I thought those signs were in pretty bad taste. I remember the crudely-drawn racist cartoon of Coni Rice being expecially offensive.
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