I don't know if you all have been following this, but Cuba and the US are locked in a signifier war.
This is the Christmas light display at the US Mission in Havana that features the number 75 in reference to the 75 dissidents jailed last April in Cuba (14 of them have been let go, but the US says it wants to "highlight Cuba's human rights record")

The display at night

And so Cuba erected this sign, highlighting the US's human rights record, across the street


You can read about it here

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