the flags will effectively block the audience in the José Martí Plaza from seeing the American ticker board, as they could during a speech by Fidel Castro in the plaza on January 24, 2006. The number and design of the flags were to memorialize Cuban victims of terrorism, especially the 73 people who died in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger airliner. When the flags were first hoisted in early February 2006, the alleged mastermind of this attack, Luis Posada Carriles, was under U.S. custody for illegal immigration to the U.S. See also José Martí United States Interests Section in Havana References https://web.archive.org/web/20070731004637/http://www.radiohc.org/Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/.2000/2000_apr/Radio_Havana_Cuba_News_-_4_April_2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20060811072349/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000006/000652-p.htm http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs144.html External links "Tribuna Antimperialista José Martí", EcuRed (Cuban state wiki, in Spanish) Buildings and structures in Havana Monuments and memorials in Cuba Tourist attractions in Havana