Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Mercedes boss Zetsche offends Cubans with Che Guevara joke

Mercedes boss Zetsche offends Cubans with Che Guevara joke

For every college student with a Che Guevara poster on their dorm room walls and a copy of Motorcycle Diaries on their shelves, there are plenty of Americans who remember the communist leader as a cold-blooded killer. That's the problem with revolutionaries; they're nothing if not divisive. Mercedes-Benz recently received a first-hand lesson in just how polarizing Guevara himself can be after the company used a massive image of the leader in the company's presentation on car sharing at CES.

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