Posted on 03/17/2016 4:39:43 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Move over Che: Obama's the new poster in town
Havana (AFP) - A poster of US President Barack Obama popped up in central Havana Thursday in a revolutionary change to the portraits of Che Guevara and other communist leaders plastered around Cuba.
Cubans are used to living under the gaze of billboards, paintings and other depictions of Fidel Castro and his comrades in arms Che and Camilo Cienfuegos, as well as 19th-century independence leader Jose Marti.
But three days before Obama arrives in Havana for the first visit of a serving US president in nine decades, a restaurant entrepreneur has broken the bearded revolutionaries' monopoly.
The poster, put up in the street near a cathedral that Obama is expected to visit after his arrival Sunday, is a montage showing Obama alongside Raul Castro, the Cuban president and brother of Fidel.
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Well, Obama is the big commie leader in the world these days.
I’ll bet that this is the day that Obama will be proudest of. The day his picture replaced Che’s. That’s okay. They are very comparable human beings.
Magnificent.
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