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Months After Greenlighting Pro-BLM Mural, DC Mayor Removes Anti-Castro Mural Painted On The Same Street

Ben Zeisloft
Months After Greenlighting Pro-BLM Mural, DC Mayor Removes Anti-Castro Mural Painted On The Same Street
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Mayor Muriel Bowser scrubbed a mural calling for Cuban liberty from the streets of Washington, D.C.

Activists painted “Cuba Libre” — “Free Cuba” — in front of the Cuban embassy, located on 16th Street several blocks north of the White House. Bowser, a Democrat, scrubbed the mural one day after it appeared.

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