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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 380111, member: 12789"]The earlier Cuban notes were printed by STC in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia. The more recent Cuban notes have the look and feel of something likely printed in Cuba itself. There are other ironies of Che Guevera, like the fact that he "resigned" from his directorship of the Banco Nacional to take the revolution to Latin America, and was "martyred" in Bolivia, ostensibly by the CIA, but more likely by his compadres, he was a political threat to Fidel Castro Ruiz, and he needed to be liquidated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another irony of him being on Cuban notes, he <i>wasn't even</i> Cuban, but Argentinian, and even was portrayed in the movie "Evita" as an Argentinian revolutionary in his younger days.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one doubts that Fidel Castro Ruiz would doff him off, Stalin doffed off Sergey Kirov, the very popular party leader from Leningrad when his head got too big to tolerate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 380111, member: 12789"]The earlier Cuban notes were printed by STC in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia. The more recent Cuban notes have the look and feel of something likely printed in Cuba itself. There are other ironies of Che Guevera, like the fact that he "resigned" from his directorship of the Banco Nacional to take the revolution to Latin America, and was "martyred" in Bolivia, ostensibly by the CIA, but more likely by his compadres, he was a political threat to Fidel Castro Ruiz, and he needed to be liquidated. Another irony of him being on Cuban notes, he [I]wasn't even[/I] Cuban, but Argentinian, and even was portrayed in the movie "Evita" as an Argentinian revolutionary in his younger days. If one doubts that Fidel Castro Ruiz would doff him off, Stalin doffed off Sergey Kirov, the very popular party leader from Leningrad when his head got too big to tolerate.[/QUOTE]
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