Castro Did Not Improve the Lives of Cubans

A recent bestseller titled How the Mob Owned Cuba, and Lost it to the Revolution, by T.J. English parrots Fidel Castro’s script down to very "ands" and "thes." Stephen Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro’s Movie, Che, is every bit as slavishly compliant to a script from a totalitarian propaganda ministry. (With apparently a straight face) Soderbergh and del Toro followed a screenplay confected by Castro’s propaganda ministry (Che Guevara’s Diaries), with the forward written by Fidel Castro himself — (“I am not a Communist! I am an Christian Humanist! I am a lover of liberty! 1958) Soderbergh del Toro and … Continue reading Castro Did Not Improve the Lives of Cubans