U.S. retail giant Target, under pressure from Cuban-American groups and others, has removed a CD case with a picture of Che Guevara from its shelves.

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The cases show the famous photograph of the beret-wearing Che with an iPod style device.

"The stores don't have pictures of Osama bin Laden or Adolf Hitler," Miguel Saavedra, founder of the group Vigilia Mambisa, told The Miami Herald. "It's disrespectful to the Cuban community."

Ernesto Guevara, a doctor born in Argentina, became one of Fidel Castro's top aides during the 1959 Cuban revolution. His effort to spread the revolution and his summary execution in Bolivia in 1967 made him one of the most idolized and vilified men of the 20th century, and the Alberto Korda photograph may be the best-known portrait of the century.

In a statement, Target apologized for any "discomfort" the CD cases caused shoppers.