AP's "Diaz's Bag With Maoist Slogan Raises Ire" reports that clueless Hollywood fashionista Cameron Diaz offended Peruvians, who suffered under Communist style governments, sported a bag with a Maoist slogan.
This would be another great Laura Ingraham "Shut Up And Sing" moment...
While explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru's Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao's most famous political slogan.
While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru, where the Maoist Shining Path insurgency brought Peru to edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings.
Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.
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