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What's your favourite historical photo and why? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 44 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Great post and I really enjoyed the replies. Mine is of Chavez visiting Castro in 2006 in Havanna, as Castro was dying of cancer. Both men were imprisoned for a failed coup but later rose to power (Chavez democratically and Castro by revolutionary liberation of the country), and both men died in a hospital bed in their respective countries in 2013.

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    and both men died in a hospital bed in their respective countries in 2013.

    A fact the US bitterly weeps about still

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    There's a good chance the US actually did kill Chavez with a slow-acting poison of some kind. You can find a lot of articles about his rapid deterioration.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago

    They still would have preferred him rotting at Guantanamo, isolated of his loved ones, with Juan Guaido as president of Venezuela, giving away all the oil he could to American companies. I'll take it like a win.

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