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Fact Check: UFC’s Jorge Masvidal shares misleading Cuban firing squad meme Dec 17, 2020, 12:00pm EST
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On Dec. 12, UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal tweeted out a meme claiming to show a Cuban farmer about to be executed by firing squad. The meme claimed that the condemned man was being punished for refusing to work for the Castro regime.
The tweet, pictured below, featured the following caption: “This picture won the Pulitzer prize in 1960. It shows a priest giving the last rites to a Cuban farmer, owner of his land. He refused to work for the Castro regime. He died by firing squad after a “trial” by Che Guevara that lasted 4 minutes. You will never see this picture on a T shirt.”