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Duke Riley

Artist who spent four years planning and eight months breeding and homing a kit of 50 pigeons to fly from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, carrying Cuban Cohiba cigars — an illegal act under U.S. law. He called the project “Trading with the Enemy.”

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Trading with the Enemy: Homing Pigeons with Cigars Challenge U.S. Embargo, Fly from Cuba to Florida

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