Cuban guards walk past Christmas decorations at U.S. Interest Section compound in Havana.
Cuban guards walk past a display with the number 75, in reference to 75 Cuban pro-democracy activists imprisoned by the government, along with a snowman set up at the U.S. Interest Section compound in Havana, December 17, 2004. In response, the Cuban government has set up a giant billboard with pictures of torture scenes form Iraq's U.S.-run prison Abu Ghraib opposite the U.S. compound as a responce for the United States' refusal to take down the 75 sign. REUTERS/Claudia Daut CD/GN