HAVANA, Dec 17 (AFP) - Cuba on Friday put up pictures of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison across the street from Christmas decorations at the US mission that highlight Cuban dissidents.
An enormous billboard put up on the road in front of the US special interest section offices said: "Fascists Made In USA".
Cuba complained this week to the chief US representative in Havana, James Cason, after the mission put up Christmas decorations which included a neon 75 -- a pointed reference to 75 Cuban dissidents detained by the communist authorities last year.
Cason said he was summoned to Cuban foreign ministry on Monday and ordered to take down the illuminations but he refused.
Cuba has not had full diplomatic relations with the United States since 1961, but the two countries have special interest sections in each other's capital for consular business.
12/17/2004 15:19 GMT - AFP