For the hundreds of thousands of habaneros who continue to live in neighborhoods riddled with corner garbage dumps, the fact that they can do nothing to increase the government’s once-a-month trash pick-ups is a source of daily indignation. In light of this, the sudden appearance of delicate anti-litter signs like this one throughout the most restored and often most naturally beautiful spaces in Havana was often considered offensive. Apparently meant to assuage the concerns of foreigners, such signs invited visitors to think that that dirty streets and trash piles in adjacent poor neighbors were the fault of citizens, not government neglect.
