Tag: cuba
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Picasso, Toirac, Warhol, others featured in exhibit by Colorado Springs collectors
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Collector Ron Brasch loves art that tells a story. One of his most recent acquisitions, Cuban artist José Ángel Toirac’s diptych “Achilles and Ulysses,” was purchased last year during a trip to Havana. The oil paintings feature portraits of Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara’s body, after Bolivian Special Forces and the CIA tracked…
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Colorado Springs Switchbacks midfielder Jose Torres is former U.S. Men’s National Team member
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Jose Torres still remembers June 18, 2010, as if it was yesterday. A member of the United States’ Men’s World Cup Team at the age of 22, Torres got the call from coach Bob Bradley to start the club’s first match against Slovenia. The tournament…