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I just watched Andy Garcia in Fox & Friends promoting "The Lost City". It was great!! Maybe other morning talk shows will follow ... not only did he promote the film, but he also commented on the Che t-shirts, etc... stressing the ignorance of some of those who wear them ... without knowing his dark side. He's such a classy guy!! :) Melek

CubaNet, Net for Cuba, Accion Democratica Cubana all offer detailed reports about the injustices being committed against prisoners of conscience in Cuba, just a couple hundred miles from the United States. Still, we hardly hear about them in the MSM. I remember when all we heard about were the refuseniks and other dissidents in the former Soviet Union and Mandela in South Africa. But today, we hear almost nothing about Biscet, Prieto, Pulido, Maseda and other Cuban political prisoners. What they are suffering is no better than what Schransky or Mandela suffered. Believing that the Cubans' stories might change U.S. hearts and minds, one at a time, I am committed to telling them as best as I know how. but the lack of widespread attention in the United States is frustrating as hell.

I know all about the sympathies, in the media and elsewhere, to Cuba and Castro. And I know that the reality of Cuba has long been ignored. But maybe it's all a PR game and we have not yet hit on the right strategy. It's frustrating, but I know I'm not giving up.

Andy Garcia is also the featured celebrity on the back page of Bon Appetit this month. The issue is about Caribbean cuisines, and has his wife's flan recipe. It also plugs The Lost City.

For those of us who are tired of party politics and being continuously disappointed by those we support because we think they have our best interests at heart, here is some interesting reading:
http://www.forbes.com/columnists/columnists/forbes/2006/0508/041.html

This really frosts my ass. These s*it for brains come mierdas down there cannot handle the truth about their false prophet/idol Che. How can purported civilized people be so blind and perverse? Beam me up Scotty!

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Garcia film banned in Soutn America

Movie star Andy Garcia's controversial new movie 'The Lost City' has been banned in parts of South America because it depicts romantic revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in a terrible light.

The 'Ocean's Twelve' star spent years trying to get the project made, only for film festival bosses and cinema chains to shun the movie because it tells the truth about the Marxist guerilla leader and the Cubans slayed as he fought to revolutionise the country and hand Fidel Castro leadership.

Garcia, who wrote, directed and stars in the film, says, "There have been festivals that wouldn't show it. That will continue to happen from people who don't want to see the image of Che be tarnished and from people who support the Castro regime. He still has a lot of supporters out there.

"Some people think Castro is a saviour, that he looks out for the kids and the poor. It's a bunch of hogwash.

"In the 45 years since Castro came to power, Cuba has been in the top three countries for human rights abuses for 43 of those years. People turn a blind eye to his atrocities."

The movie has a limited USA release beginning April 28th 2006

This story is licensed from WENN © 2006

Cigar Mike, I read the article about the film being banned, but does anyone know exactly which countries are involved? (other than Venezuela, of course.///
Re: The Cuban flag picture- that's one powerful photo. Sad but powerful.

Hey, guys ~ we should expect the Latin leftist morons to act as such. Let's not given them ammunition and get exasperated: we have the web, our little fingers and keyboards, our mouths, and nuestra moral muy alta, so we can spread the news about the film, about Cuban Nostalgia, about anything of bona fide concern to help our cause.

Let's do it.

If they want to ban our cause - and our MONEY - it's their freaking LOSS. More power to us.

Marc, you are so right. Yesterday I dedicated a post to Dr. Elias Biscet. Here's another link: http://www.free-biscet.org/. We cannot forget these people which is precisely why we need to keep posting their information so that their faces are not forgotten and the message gets out each and everyday!

well, if anyone's interested, you can check out a peice on my blog about a pathetic NYT story today about Illegal Immigration in the Heartland or some such shit.

the article here.

my post here.

Okay, Val, since you asked, I have a piece up on the Havana Bienal with a remarkable teeth-gritting picture of the Cuban artist Kcho kavorting in his Miramar mansion. "Sit Down, Don't Be Rockin' Kcho's Boat."

Here:http://www.thetearsofthings.net/archives/000572.html

I just found this thank you letter from Fidel Castro that I thought I would share with you.

Woops...just in case the URL didn't work before...

http://bizblogger.blogspot.com/2006/04/secret-letter-from-castro-to-florida.html

READING LIST: I'd appreciate your comments about the books I've been reading (English) since my trip to Cuba last November. I also welcome any recommendations you may have.

"Trading with the Enemy" Tom Miller
"Miami" Joan Didion
"Es Cuba" Lea Aschkenas
"Travelers' Tales Cuba" Edited by Tom Miller
Lonely Planet - Cuba
"Tropicana Nights" Rosa Lowinger & Ofelia Fox
"Finding Manana" Mirta Ojito (excellent)
"The Man Who Invented Fidel" Anthony DePalma

Have also read several histories of the revolution; about/by Jose Marti, and the Cuban "mafia."

Especially interested in history of Cubans who left the island in 1959 and later. Thank you for helping to educate me.

Carlos Eire "Waiting for snow in Havana"
Enrique Encinosa " Unvanquished"
Carlos Victoria "A Bridge in Darkness"
Armando Valledares "Against all Hope"

for shorter fare visit the archives here and read Vals stories. Also. there are wonderful stories of the exile experience at: http://cubanstories.blogspot.com/

Ziva,

I have "Against All Hope" and began reading it today. I've bookmarked cubanstories and thank you so much for recommending this and Val's archives.

What is your opinion of Georgie Anne Geyer's "Guerrilla Prince?" I've also read: "After Fidel" Brian Latell
"Persona Non Grata" Jorge Edwards
"Castro's Daughter" Alina Fernandez

Cigar Mike,

Can you post the link to the story so I can pass it on?

-Fielding.

Fielding, here is the link

http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=13907&Pg=1

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