{"id":12071,"date":"2012-04-10T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2020-10-13T04:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T04:17:19","slug":"colombia-1000-peso-note-does-not-depict-fidel-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=12071","title":{"rendered":"Colombia 1,000-peso note does not depict Fidel Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/742774_pic_970x641.jpg\" alt=\"742774_pic_970x641.jpg\" width=\"441\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">Rumors recently surfaced in a <a href=\"http:\/\/colombiareports.com\/colombia-news\/news\/23230-is-fidel-castro-on-colombias-1000-peso-bill.html\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colombia Reports article dated 2 April 2012<\/a> that the back of Colombia\u2019s 1,000-peso (US$0.55) note (B985 and B986)\u2014first issued in 2001\u2014contains an image of Cuba\u2019s former leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fidel_Castro\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fidel Castro<\/a>, as a young student in the crowd behind Colombian presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jorge_Eli\u00e9cer_Gait\u00e1n_Ayala\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jorge Eli\u00e9cer Gait\u00e1n Ayala<\/a>. However, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/colombiareports.com\/colombia-news\/news\/23246-fidel-castro-not-on-colombias-1000-peso-bill-says-designer.html\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow-up article<\/a>, the banknote\u2019s designer, Jose Antonio Suarez, denies that he inserted Castro into the crowd and insists the likeness is merely a coincidence. According to the article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banrep.gov.co\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Banco de la Rep\u00fablica de Colombia<\/a> plans to replace the 1,000-peso note with a coin in October.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Christof Zellweger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors recently surfaced in a Colombia Reports article dated 2 April 2012 that the back of Colombia\u2019s 1,000-peso (US$0.55) note (B985 and B986)\u2014first issued in 2001\u2014contains an image of Cuba\u2019s former leader, Fidel Castro, as a young student in the crowd behind Colombian presidential candidate Jorge Eli\u00e9cer Gait\u00e1n Ayala. However,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=12071\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[59,37],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-12071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-caribbean","category-south-america","tag-colombia","tag-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30877,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions\/30877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}