![]() Cuba at that time was suffering from food shortages, and Castro became convinced that a herd of supercows that could produce huge quantities of milk would be the answer. Which is exactly what Castro did in the 1960s. However, most people aren’t unquestioned demagogues of a country with an agrarian economy who can command their top scientists to breed a new species of cow that will produce four times the amount of milk as a normal cow. He also almost caused a falling out with the French by demanding that their ambassador say Cuban cheese was better than camembert, which reportedly ended with the ambassador banging the table and shouting “never!” (the French are sensitive about their cheese). He was so famed for it that the CIA once attempted to poison his milkshake. The thing is that Fidel Castro loved dairy. While less inclined to mass murder than many other dictators, he was still an autocrat, and, like most autocratic leaders, he had a grand vision that he wanted to achieve for his country. For another, and, perhaps more notably, she was a cow.įidel Castro is one of history’s more polarising leaders. For one thing, she was female, a tough position in patriarchal Cuba. Ubre Blanca was an unusual revolutionary. But this is not a monument to Che Guevara or Fidel Castro no, this is a statue of Ubre Blanca. In the city of Nueva Gerona there stands a white stone statue of one of the most beloved Cuban revolutionaries, whose legacy lives on to this day.
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