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Here's what Fidel Castro's business card looks like

Jun 23, 2015, 00:55 IST

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Fidel Castro and the Cuban government hosted American food companies in September, 2002 at the US Food & Agribusiness Exhibition - the first food trade fair of its kind in the long-forbidden market.

Nearly 300 US business organizations gathered at the Havana Convention Palace - traveling under a special Treasury Department license reluctantly issued by the Bush administration - to showcase their products, many of which were unavailable to the Cuban people since before the four-decade-long embargo.

Every attendee received the infamous revolutionary leaders' business card which reads (from top to bottom): Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State and Government.

The Cuban Coat of Arms is embossed on the top left corner of the card.

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This card belongs to Kenneth Berger (full disclosure: he's my dad), who traveled to the exhibition as an Executive Vice President of Copenhagen Tankers (now called Nordic Tankers), a worldwide liquid cargo shipping company that attended the trade fair to discuss the transport of soybean oil.

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