June 28, 2005
You gotta love it
What I wouldnt do to get a load of the following graffitti:
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - June 27 (Niurvys Díaz Remond, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - Local sign makers and painters are being questioned by state security police following a rash of anti-Castro caricatures drawn on walls in the Santa Clara region.The caricatures show a rice pot attached to the president's buttocks with a cable, an allusion to a campaign to save energy through the use of more fuel efficient cooking pots. The caricatures appeared on walls in Caibarién, Camajuaní, Santa Clara and Manajanabo.
Although wall posters are a popular form of dissident expression in Cuba, the authors of the works can be charged with the crime of producing "enemy propaganda" and face lengthy jail sentences.
Posted by Val Prieto at June 28, 2005 06:13 AM
Comments
Can anyone on the island smuggle out a photo? It would be grand!
Posted by: George L. Moneo at June 28, 2005 06:19 AM
I would love to see one of those!!!
Posted by: CB at June 28, 2005 07:00 AM
Enemy propaganda? Well, since it's castro's picture, I guess it does feature the enemy.
It would indeed be grand if someone like the Monte Rouge folks were able to smuggle out photos of this fine art.
Posted by: FL Mom at June 28, 2005 09:07 AM
I'm sure that the same security police that are questioning those brave artist, have already removed or covered up the artwork.
Posted by: Candy at June 28, 2005 10:02 AM
LOL! Oh man, they hate that guy. I am betting that vivid image is going to show up again.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at June 28, 2005 11:52 AM
Wouldn't it be great if those brave souls down there had the means to revive an underground version of Zig-Zag? The weekly humor tabloid I fondly recall, the first to be suppressed by kagasstro, as the humor in it even then (1959) was hitting too close to home...
Posted by: Alberto Quiroga at June 29, 2005 08:10 AM
My wife just arrived last week back from Cuba. She says the first painting was in Alamar. Her father saw it. The rice cooker was on his head and was plugged into his ass.
Posted by: Greg at June 29, 2005 11:17 AM