Early on Christmas day, 2014, Cuban artist Danilo Maldonado, nicknamed "El Sexto," planned a performance piece inspired by Animal Farm. He had carefully painted, using bright red capital letters, the names "FIDEL" and "RAUL" onto two squirming piglets. It's traditional in Cuba between Christmas and New Year's to release pigs to be kept by anyone who can catch them. But Danilo never got to release his pigs. One of Cuba's ubiquitous soplones (snitches), often older busy-body volunteers for the loc...
Early on Christmas day, 2014, Cuban artist Danilo Maldonado, nicknamed "El Sexto," planned a performance piece inspired by Animal Farm. He had carefully painted, using bright red capital letters, the names "FIDEL" and "RAUL" onto two squirming piglets. It's traditional in Cuba between Christmas and New Year's to release pigs to be kept by anyone who can catch them. But Danilo never got to release his pigs. One of Cuba's ubiquitous soplones (snitches), often older busy-body volunteers for the loc...
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