Hugo Chavez
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Raul Castro to Company: Your Idea Stinks
Fragrance finito. The news from Havana: Labiofam was forced on Friday to put a stopper in the “Hugo” and “Che” colognes it uncorked on Thursday. We had said that these power-to-the-people perfumes, named for Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez, were put on the market. It appears we were in error. They were prototypes. After 24 short…
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Perfuming the Culture Red
This site has been relying on a visual metaphor for cultural emanations of communism. We never thought of the sense of smell. We’re thinking again, what with the products that a Cuban company called Labiofam has just brought out, in hopes that the wafting aroma of Marxist-Leninist heroes will attract the cologne-buying public. Bottles of…