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"A lot of African countries were represented as part of the delegation there, including liberation movements. And Castro connected with a few leaders, particularly Amílcar Cabral from Guinea-Bissau," Olivia Ahmad, the curator of the exhibition at the House of Illustration, told the BBC.
Latin America's most recognisable revolutionary, Ernesto"Che" Guevara, was"probably the most depicted across the whole output of Ospaaal", she says. "The portraits are particularly interesting because they have all these pop art influences that you might not expect to see, so they are kind of celebrating people but in a genuinely celebratory way - rather than having a sort of like lumpen socialist-realist aesthetic," says Ms Ahmad.
It is one of the recurring motifs - women with guns - showing them taking an active role and the Tricontinental magazine had"quite a lot of contributions from women and articles about women as well on guerrilla fronts", Ms Ahmad says.Castro played a major role in Angola, unlike Cuba's secret operations in Africa in the 1960s, where he saw an opportunity to exert his brand of international solidarity to make a difference on a global scale.
They tended to have captions at the bottom, usually in four languages - English, Spanish, French and Arabic -"to help them be more universal because they were intended for circulation rather than to be seen in Cuba", she says.Ospaaal oversaw a huge publishing operation, which involved a lot of paper and ink. Olivio Martínez Viera, a designer who was at Ospaaal from almost the beginning, said there were often material shortages that meant they had to be quite creative.
What possible interest is this to us here in Britain? The LGBBC should deliver British stories and not waste money that has been stolen from pensioners.
My god, is the BBC really pimping for the totalitarian dictator, Fidel Castro? Who's the editor behind this bullshit?
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