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Fifth Summit of the Americas

By Pedro Méndez Suárez (Posted Apr 19, 2009)

Commentary

Fifth Summit of the Americas

Fifth Summit of the Americas

“Grandpa, doesn’t Cuba belong to the Americas?”

“Yes, sonny, it does, but not to the Americans.”


Pedro Méndez Suárez is a Cuban cartoonist.  The cartoon was published by Rebelión.  Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi | yoshie.furuhashi [at] gmail.com).


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