Radical chic chic hits country," Roland Nethaway compared libertarians to "John Wayne on steroids," writing they were "anti-government before anti-government was cool". In a 2013 Reuters article, Nicholas Wapshott used the term to describe those who use radical statements to add a "dangerous edge to their otherwise humdrum personas." Los Angeles Times journalist suggested that Alberto Korda's iconic March 1960 photograph of revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara is possibly "the most-reproduced photograph in the world," a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture. Shortly after the October 17, 1997 burial with military honors in Santa Clara, Cuba of Guevara's
Che Guevara aid to some of the victims. Cuban leader Fidel Castro immediately accused the CIA of "an act of terrorism" and held a state funeral the following day for the victims of the blast. It was at the memorial service that Alberto Korda took the famous photograph of Guevara, now known as "Guerrillero Heroico". These perceived threats prompted Castro to further eliminate "counter-revolutionaries", and to utilize Guevara to drastically increase the speed of land reform. To implement this plan, a new government agency, the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA), was established to administer the new Agrarian Reform law. INRA quickly