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“The Cuban Revolution is and always has been a brand”

March 13, 2008 By admin

“After Guevara was killed in 1967, and following ‘Cuba’s very unrevolutionary submission to Soviet dominance,’ his iconic image gave Cuba a ‘Pop Art makover. The now-ubiquitous Che brand was born,’ and Castro, says Michael Casey, wrapped himself in it.

“Che’s image made a branding comeback in the 1990s, emblazoned on ‘calendars, watches, postcards and all manner of trinkets…’

“Today, Che’s image has been enlisted in Cuba’s P.R. campaign for its health-care system, with some 200 Cuban medics recently celebrated by Bolivian officials ‘as model revolutionaries — guerillas with stethoscopes instead of rifles. And in case the branding tie-in wasn’t clear, each medic was dressed in a white lab coat opened to reveal a red or blue Che T-shirt.'”

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