From Castlebar - County Mayo -
Cuba 50 Years After the Revolution
By Che
2, Jan 2009 - 13:16
On the 50th Anniversary of Cuba's revolution we have some photos from Havana with an emphasis on the large hoardings exhorting the population to continue the revolution. |

Instead of commercial advertising hoardings Cuba has posters extolling motherhood, apple pie, education, liberty - and defiance of the US blockade. This one translates as "Examples of Heroism. Freedom Now!"
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Images of Che Guevara are common.
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Have you worn the Che T-Shirt?
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Che again - "Your Example Lives"
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The 50th Anniversary of the revolution is 2 January 2009 - presumably this 2008 poster '49 Aniversario' of the revolution has already been updated.
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With strong direction. Forward!
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Patria o Muerte - like in Giron (the Bay of Pigs)
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El Plan Bush - defiance.
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El Plan Bush -
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One week's blockade equals 48 locomotives
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Chavez on Cuban TV in Havana - Chavez is popular.
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"We will realize the dream of Bolivar and Marti" with Chavez prominent.
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Old American cars make up about 30% of the traffic on the roads.
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Would it get an NCT?
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"Education is to Create"
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Cheerfully in the vanguard?
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Outside an establishment - a partner of "homeland or death" - Patria o Meurte. It probably reads better in Spanish.
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Castro and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew
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El Capitolio - the former seat of government now home to the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
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In Havana a whole wall devoted to literary and artistic names of old Havana.
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Cuba has two currencies a special tourist convertible peso and a local peso that is worth approximately 20 times less but tourists are not permitted to use the local peso.
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The Cuban Flag - lots of them!
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Postcard from Cuba
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Cuban postage stamps
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Like Knock Airport there is an exit tax - but they give you this pretty hologram sticker on your boarding card.
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