I stumbled upon this article in the Guardian the other day on one of the Bush administration's last attempts to bring democracy to Cuba :
The scrolling electronic sign, a low-tech version of New York's Times Square ticker, escalated the US's propaganda war with Cuba's leader three years ago by flashing human rights messages in five-foot high crimson letters. But history, or more Obama appears to have pulled the plug on the billboard which flitted across 25 windows of the US interests section in Havana.And to top it all off:
The sign was slow-moving, difficult to read and lacked Spanish accents and tildes. For instance "año", which means year, appeared as "ano", which means anus.
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This is brilliant! It reminds me of those Unicef campaigns in Malawi:
"Stop Child Abuse!"
I would have been absolutely fascinated by a study of the cost effectiveness of an intervention which sent postcards to pretty much everyone in Malawi with a mailbox instructing them not to abuse children, but offering no advice on where they could report child abuse, how they could help vulnerable people or even what constituted child abuse in a country where children routinely work for a living in rural areas.
actually, this is even better, because instead of saying
"Lets have democracy in this year!"
it says:
"Lets have democracy in this ass!"