Here’s a Crazy Picture of Obama Standing in Front of a Giant Drawing of Che Guevara

Before his historic meeting with Cuban leader Raúl Castro on Monday, President Obama laid a wreath at a memorial to Cuban writer and independence fighter José Martí, who was killed in a battle with Spanish colonial authorities in 1895. During the event at the memorial, Obama stood in the position shown above for a photo; in the background is Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior, decorated as you can see with a giant outline drawing (which is actually rendered in steel) of the infamous revolutionary figure Che Guevara.

One imagines this is not an angle Obama would have agreed to stand in if he had to run for re-election again; indeed, right-wing sites are already freaking out. But even Ronald Reagan could tell you that the cause of making peace sometimes involves inopportune juxtapositions:

That’s the Gipper at Moscow State University in 1988. The revolution lives on!