Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Cuba sues cigar shop owner over name



(AP) A cigar lounge in suburban Detroit is decorated with paintings and photos of famous people with a stogie: John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, even the 1950s Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
"We have only one thing in common," said owner Ismail Houmani, a U.S. war veteran, pointing at a cigar in the fingers of Guevara, a Marxist rebel.
Cuba, however, believes the shop has too much common with its own famous cigar business. Continued

Photo: Portrait of Che Guevara painted on a wall in Old Havana, Cuba (Carol Highsmith/Library of Congress).

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