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On my first visit to Cuba as a tourist in 2014, I was bombarded with the presence of the iconic image of Che Guevara on souvenirs, billboards, and public buildings. As an artist, I was compelled to investigate how this image came to be. “Guerrillero Heroico (English: "Heroic Guerrilla Fighter") is a photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda. It was captured on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion.” The historic