Has anyone heard of Andy Garcia's up comming movie The Lost City? It's about Cuba just before the revolution. http://www.iesb.net/indies/042006.php
Is this supposed to be a joke? I really tried to read it with an open mind, but I must say it was challenging.
Andy Garcia is Fed Up With People Who Glorify Che Guevara Andy Garcia is urging fashion-conscious rebels to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the image of Latino revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara because they remind Cubans of terrible times. The actor accepts that Guevara stands for rebellion and is seen as a hero to many, but he sees the revolutionary as a butcher who killed millions of his countrymen. Argentine-born Guevara helped current Cuban leader Fidel Castro overthrow General Fulgencio Batista's government in a guerrilla revolution in the late 1950s. Garcia, who left Cuba when he was five, says, "I'd be curious to go around and ask them how much they really know about Che. Some people wearing the T-shirt don't even know his name. They know he's some sort of revolutionary, and to wear his image is cool because you feel like a revolutionary. Someone told me the other day that they asked one of these people if they were aware of all the executions that Che was a part of in Cuba and the guy said, 'Well, I don't know if that's true, as if it had been made up to discredit him.' I wish you could say it was made up because that would mean that all those people didn't die under his thumb. That's the tragedy." (This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network)
Q. Are you hoping that this film will clear up some common misperceptions about Cuba and its current government? A. That would be nice because there is such a lack of understanding or knowledge of what really went down in that time period. Most people think that the Cuban revolution was a socialist…a Marxist revolution. It was not. It turned into that, but that was not what was articulated. That’s not what people were fighting for. In fact, that was not what Fidel Castro’s whole manifesto stated which was the restoration of the constitution, of democracy, elections, and all that. It only turned once he took power. LINK
Yes, they started out more like a middle class liberal rebel group focusing on social security, full employment, removing Batista etc., but turned into socialists gradually while the fight involved, and while they were in power. The were not socialists, but they implemented socialist reforms.These reforms they thought, would be the best solution for Cuba.
I've heard it pointed out that the U.S embargo probably made Cuba more communist than it would have been because it caused Castro to depend more on the Soviets.
