Friday, April 3, 2026

Separated at birth

[Gerardo Machado y Morales, Cuban president/dictator, and Scott Bessent, American secretary of the Treasury.]

I looked up the Cuban dictator after watching We Were Strangers (dir. John Huston, 1949), a fictionalized narrative of events that led to his ouster in 1933. Having seen a resemblance, I could not bring myself to unsee it.

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