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Judi Lynn

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1. Che Guevara stamp sells out first run in unprecedented public demand

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Fri Oct 13, 2017, 11:24 PM

Oct 2017

12 October 2017
JOHN HEDGES
AN PHOBLACHT EDITOR

THE Che Guevara stamp produced by An Post to mark the 50th anniversary of the Latin American freedom fighter’s murder on 9 October 1967 by CIA-backed Bolivian state forces has sold out its initial 120,000 print run.

The announcement confounds critics from Fine Gael, the Alt-Right and reactionary commentators such as Lucinda Creighton and Ruth Dudley Edwards.

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http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/27169

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Ireland celebrates Che Guevara's Irish roots with a stamp, despite opposition [View all] Judi Lynn Oct 2017 OP

Che Guevara stamp sells out first run in unprecedented public demand Judi Lynn Oct 2017 #1

I imagine if they had put Stalin on a stamp, they'd sell out quickly too GatoGordo Oct 2017 #2

Post #2 contains at least three logical errors. PETRUS Oct 2017 #3