[lbo-talk] Viva Fidel! Fore!

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 16 08:19:03 PDT 2006


There's a fascinating collection of photos of Castro and his colleagues, done by Fidel's longtime personal photographer Alberto Korda, at <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/galleries/091506/korda/index.html>

Among the more unusual highlights:

#22: Castro in military fatigues wielding a putter on a golfing green. Korda's caption: "One day, President Eisenhower made the front page of the New York Times after scoring a hole-in-one during a golf match. In jest, Fidel asked Che to teach him how to play. Che knew how to play golf from his childhood in Argentina. Fidel asked me along to take some photos..."

#37: Castro frolicking in the snow with his inebriated Soviet hosts during a state visit to the USSR. Caption: "The capacity of the Russians to drink alcohol and act like children was astounding. While they were out hunting, Nikita and Leonid's favorite pastime was to try to stuff snow down each other's pants..." (Note: This is at least preferable to getting a shotgun blast in the face from hunter Dick Cheney.)

The collection also includes different versions of the shot of Che Guevera that is certainly one of the most famous images ever -- see #1, #18, #19.

Carl



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