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"Guilty." Though unflattering images of former President Bush are common, we saw no images of President Obama. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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Jose Marti, Plaza de la Revolucion. A smaller bust of the national hero, who died fighting for Cuban independence in 1898, seems to be in front of at least one building on every street. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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Mahatma Gandhi. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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In the lobby of the Havana Libre hotel, a poster campaign to free five "Cuban heroes unjustly held in U.S. prisons." MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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On the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Castro announced that Cuba was henceforth Socialist. This bas relief marks the spot. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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Flagpoles were erected to block messages posted by the U.S. government on the U.S. Interests Section building during the Bush administration. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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Che Guevara's stylized image is everywhere, from banners in ice cream parlors to T-shirts to the walls of a huge government ministry in Plaza de la Revolucion. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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Camila Cienfuegos, Plaza de la Revolucion: "Vas bien, Fidel" (You're doing fine, Fidel"). MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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Omar Torrijos, military dictator of Panama: "Each hour of isolation suffered by the beautiful people of Cuba equals 60 minutes of hemispheric shame." MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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John Lennon: "You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." A custodian puts glasses on Lennon, left, with Joel and Laurie Kramer, when tourists approach and removes them as soon as they depart.
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Plaques honor North Americans including Benjamin Spock, John Reed, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Abraham Lincoln and the Haymarket Anarchists in Chicago. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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Carrying a likeness of Elian Gonzalez, Jose Marti (who died almost a century before Elian was born) points accusingly in the direction of the U.S. Interests Section, formerly the U.S. Embassy. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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A plaque beneath the statue quotes Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar who lived from 1783 to 1830: "The United States, which appears destined by Providence to plague the Americas with miseries in the name of liberty." MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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2009 was a big year — the 50th anniversary of the Revolution. MinnPost photo by Joel Kramer.
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