US ambassador to Mexico slams dead painter

Updated September 3 2019 - 10:38am, first published 10:36am
US Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau has criticised the late Frida Kahlo's support of Marxism.
US Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau has criticised the late Frida Kahlo's support of Marxism.

The new US ambassador to Mexico has taken aim at Mexican artist Frida Kahlo for her support of Marxism, stirring up a fierce social media debate with a tweet asking if the painter had not been aware of atrocities committed in the name of that ideology.

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