OKAY I WROTE A WHOLE POST AND THEN TUMBLR DELETED IT SO THIS IS ROUND 2 (and it’s gonna be worse than the og one was because I’m tired and lazy) SO I got really excited to see stuff about Cuba in the art museum because I might not be Cuban by blood but I did grow up on 8th street so I might as well be. Apparently in the 20th century Cuban maps were used as ways to influence people’s political views. In the “Florida Viva” map the Reagan quote basically translates to a bunch of yammer about freedom and opportunity for future generations, and it’s accompanied by a map of Cuba featuring the 6 pre-revolutionary provinces (even though the reality is that Cuba had been split into 15 by this point). It’s a really clear attempt at pandering to the Cuban-American population in order to get them to vote republican (which isn’t that hard tbh). The second map is a much darker and more grim look at Cuba’s situation, showing men’s and women’s prisons, concentration camps, and “state rehabilitation farms”. This map was clearly meant to get people angry, or at least convince them that the situation in cuba was and is dire, not something to be ignored for the sake of voter approval.
