Che Guevara

'Evita' Star Ricky Martin Still Feels Stage Pangs

AP | JOHN CARUCCI | Posted 04.06.2012

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NEW YORK — Ricky Martin commands the stage with an air of confidence, yet the Latin superstar admits to being self-conscious at times. "I'm sti...

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Carlos Harrison

Irish "Che" Statue

HuffingtonPost.com | Carlos Harrison | Posted 03.01.2012

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Two of Florida’s U.S. representatives are at war with Ireland –- at least with the city of Galway -- over its council’s plans to erect a statue...

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Que Vivan Los Ridiculos

Luis Andre Gazitua | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Mercedes-Benz, Che Guevara, Miami, Cuba, Latino Voices News
Luis Andre Gazitua

I'm done beating the dead horse but for a company whose philosophy is to give the best to customers who expect the best -- because they are willing to pay for it -- you kind of look ridiculous.

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El Che: The Crass Marketing of a Sadistic Racist

Michael Gonzalez | Posted 03.12.2012

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Michael Gonzalez

There's something about Che Guevara that convinces older European men that they will become cooler through association with his "brand." We saw that again yesterday when Mercedes-Benz Chairman Dieter Zetsche launched a new car under a banner picture of Guevara.

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How Much Weird News Do You Know? Take The Weekly Fark Quiz

Fark.com | Posted 10.26.2011

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It was a weird week, but how much bizarre news do you know? Take the weekly Fark Quiz and see how smart you are about strange news....

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Cuba's Dual Currency System Provides a Way to Cheat Shoppers

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

All around the hotels, now, one sees the elderly with their poverty-level pensions, showing a foreigner the "merchandise" of these shiny three-peso coins, with a beret and jacket-clad guerilla.

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PHOTOS: Che Remembered in T-Shirt Form

Posted 10.22.2011

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, is famous not only for his role in the Cuban revolution but also for his role in college c...

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More PR Shame: Associated Press Cooperates With Dictatorial Propaganda Machines

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 10.15.2011

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Thor Halvorssen

Is any of the dark, undeniable reality of life under Castro mentioned in a single caption of the thousands of photographs offered by the AP? Not once. Castro, they repeat, is a "revolutionary hero."

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In Cuba, Architectural Vindication

J. Michael Welton | Posted 10.02.2011

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J. Michael Welton

It traces its roots to an inspired conversation between victorious revolutionaries Che Guevara and Fidel Castro on an abandoned, suburban Havana golf course in January 1961. Those were heady days.

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PHOTOS: World Figures Whose Bodies Were Exhumed

Posted 09.20.2011

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German authorities decided this week to remove Rudolf Hess's bones from their Bavarian resting place this week, after reports that the grave of Adolf ...

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Diary Of An Icon: Che Guevara's Guerrilla Campaign Journal Published

Posted 08.15.2011

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HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has published revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journal from the guerrilla campaign he fought with Fidel Castro. "Dia...

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An Afternoon in Morón, Cuba (Photos)

Corinne McDermott | Posted 07.13.2011

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Corinne McDermott

We were afforded a relatively tourist-free glimpse into a real Cuban city -- devoid of Hemingway attractions and women in costume posing with cigars. We loved it.

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Osama Bin Laden's Code Name

The Huffington Post | Tim Stenovec | Posted 07.03.2011

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"We have a visual on Geronimo," CIA director Leon Panetta told President Obama and his advisors, according to The New York Times. He was using the ...

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Communist Art Displayed In Library Of Congress

The Weekly Standard | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the debate about curbing government spending continues, allow me to propose a modest but important cut: the Library of Congress's Employee Art s...

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'Motorcycle Diaries' Inspiration Dies In Cuba

AP | PAUL HAVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAVANA — Alberto Granado, who accompanied Ernesto 'Che' Guevara on a 1952 journey of discovery across Latin America that was immortalized in Guevara...

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A Day in the Life of a Yemeni Revolutionary

Isobel Coleman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Isobel Coleman

Tawakul compares today's movement to Yemen's 1962 revolution which overthrew the monarchy. All of the same conditions hold true: endemic poverty and disease, a lack of education, corruption.

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The Buried Revolution

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

In Cuba, the word "revolution" is absent from popular predictions for the new year, as the majority of citizens no longer consider it a dynamic entity. When they refer to the prevailing model in the country they do so as if it were a straightjacket.

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What's On Keith Olbermann's Sweatshirt?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Keith Olbermann has been chronicling the New York City blizzard over Twitter for the last day — wearing a unique sweatshirt Sunday for on-the-ground...

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Even in Cuba, Profits Trump Everything

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

The hospitable accommodations were built on land where pre-fabricated parts were once assembled to create a city for the New Man. As this chimeric in...

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VIDEO: 'Chef Che' Food Truck Offends Cuban-Americans With 'Fidel Castro Empanada'

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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Food trucks have grown up, and some are going to college--which may explain why this food truck has donned the equivalent of a Che Guevara t-shirt. Fo...

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PHOTOS: 10 Best Travel Quotes Of All Time

Black Tomato | Posted 09.19.2011

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Black Tomato

As the excitement for the upcoming release of the film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's "The Rum Diary" builds, here at Black Tomato we have been in...

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El Dorado and the Left of the 21st Century

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

Today's guest post is from Claudia Cadelo, from her blog, Octavo Cerco. El Dorado and Left of the 21st Century by Claudia Cadelo My only certainty i...

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STREET ART: Specter Spot-Jocks Shepard Fairey in New York City

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Ice-T is still stylin' like an American Che Guevara, but he's officially joined the force 19 years after "Cop Killer". (photos © Jaime Rojo) ...

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Exclusive Preview of DC Comics' Cuba: My Revolution

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bryan Young

I've long extolled the virtues of DC Comics and their Vertigo line of original graphic novels, and they've always been challenging the medium to do bigger and better things. Cuba: My Revolution beautifully tells the tale of a Cuba I'd never really read about.

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Che and the "Original Sin" of the Intellectuals

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

Art for tourists in Cuba: Che is always prominently displayed Exclusive to Huffington Post. It's been said a thousand and one times: intellectuals ...

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