Navy FIRES all three leaders of Seabees battalion ‘due to a loss of confidence in their abilities to effectively perform their leadership roles’
* Three leaders of a Navy construction battalion have been has been striped of their duties following an internal investigation that was launched last December
* Commanding officer Jeffrey Lengkeek, executive officer Michael Jarosz, and Master Chief Matthew Turner were relieved of their duties on February 3
* The Navy is refusing to elaborate on the circumstances that led to the dismissals, but said no criminal charges are expected
* The men will remain in the Navy, but have been reassigned Region Mid-Atlantic indefinitely at Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia
‘Inspired by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro,’ a New York restaurant missteps in Miami
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/restaurants/article258168363.html#storylink=cpy
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....“Inspired by a storied Mexico City hangout, where legend has it Che Guevara and Fidel Castro plotted the Cuban Revolution, the flagship Café Habana location was created out of an old-school New York diner in 1997. Eighteen years later, Café Habana remains an institution…” read a description on the restaurant’s website until this week.
That information was scrubbed from the restaurant’s website and Google in the days after people in Miami discovered the restaurant’s backstory. The Soho restaurant’s website still displays a Brooklyn mural of the late rapper Biggie Smalls, who sang the song “Get Money,” painted as “Comandante Biggie.”
In Miami, a city with an huge Cuban expat population, a restaurant that celebrates the plotting of the Cuban Revolution by the two communist leaders and rebrands American cultural icons as communist propaganda can expect pushback. Local social media personality Josue Alvarez posted about the restaurant changing its origin story on its website.
“I’m sorry, Sean Meenan, but here in Miami, there’s two things we don’t accept: communism and gringos making croquetas,” he said on his Instagram page, referring to the restaurant’s founder.
