Hundreds of people continued to protest the alleged United
States' hostile actions against Cuba on Tuesday outside the US
interests office, the country's de facto embassy.
The silent demonstration under the so-called "Forest of Flags,"
facing the US mission in Havana, opened Monday evening and will
continue until Tuesday night.
Demonstrators took turns in holding up pictures of 138 people
whom the Cuban government says have died as a result of US actions
against Cuba.
The forest of 138 black flags blocks the messages displayed on a
luminous screen set on one of the upper floors of the US interests
office building. The protest was opened by Cuban President Fidel
Castro, government officials and relatives of the victims.
Each flag has a single white star in the center, representing
individual Cubans killed in what Havana describes as US-sponsored
terrorism.
Demonstrators wore black shirts, signifying mourning for the
dead, among whom were the 73 passengers of a Cuban airliner blown
up in 1976.
By the end of the protest, some 7,000 people will have taken
part, according to the organizers.
The US has kept Cuba under an economic embargo for some 45
years.
(Xinhua News Agency February 8, 2006)
