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¡PATRIA O MUERTE!

Like a David and Goliath scenario; 19 rebels began a revolution in Cuba that unified the county and gained the strong arm over the USA in the 1950's. This notion was then, and is maintained today in the mantra 'Patria o Muerte', meaning 'Fatherland or Death'. 


With the historic political changes currently occurred between the Obama administration and the Castro regime, Cuba is now poised for transformation, ready or not.  Over a relatively short period of time we will see cultural , socio-economic and structural changes to an Island that has been visually frozen in time for nearly 60 years. 


These pictures poke fun at the notion of 'Patria o Muerte' and the irony behind maintaining a belief structure for a preposed notion of freedom, while questioning what freedom really is too? 

There is an unease in Cuba likened to the angst and rebelling of a teenager who has an overly protective, loving, yet sometimes unreasonable father, made to maintain his beliefs which don't necessarily reflect their own.

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