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The problem is that NOT ONE student from Berkeley, NOT ONE professor from BErzerkeley NOR has BOTERO EVER BEEN ON DUTY AT GITMO OR ABU Ghairib. SO WHY MAKE ART WORK ABOUT IT? AND BOTERO has enjoyed a lucrative career but as a politic pundit on material that he knows not one thing about is MEDIOCRE ONE AS THESE portraits reveal The Modern Muralists of the 20th Century including David Alfaro Sequieros and Alfredo Ramos Martinez each rejected the tenets of European Academies which required that artists depict works from only limited categories - If you are astute you;ll know what these are. If not then yo dont. Regarding politics or history, the topics had to be about 100 years old. Which is where the European Manet made his splash through his dealing with the execution of Maximilian by Mexican soldiers. Another critical point is that to be a contributing force in the Mexican Murialist movement, one most certainly did not paint about what one reads, what one hears about, but from direct experience - Botero knows his fat women and is master. But in this political arena he is a pandering naive infant and as uninformed and onerous as the entire lot of communist professors at Berkeley through these exercises in fantasy. You see Hearsay does not belong in the creative dialog and neither does pandering to communist ideology. If you want to talk about humiliation? watch people humiliate themselves through blind rage as they act out their childish unresolved angst against complete strangers they have not shared a cup of coffee with - US MARINES who serve their nation as you Berkeley commies defame it! visit Telegraph avenue near the campus to see for yourselves. I will never return to this sick city - my great uncle is Alfredo Ramos Martinez and I am an artist too but I served in the military and I serve today as a Reserves officer and am a college Professor of Studio Art -- Never have I been so offended by art artists and communist professors spouting bullshit in the name of teaching - Go to Berkeley and sit in a lecture - That is Human Injustice in action!