For anyone that missed Oliver Stone's Fidel Castro documentary, Comandante, last week on Newsworld. You have another chance to see it as CBC Newsworld is going to be re-airing it Friday, April 2 at 10:00pm.
I'd like to give a kudos to CBC for airing the movie after the American -- Time Warner owned -- TV channel HBO pulled the plug on it because they didn't like the way it portrayed Castro (ie. not as an "evil doer", as Bushy would like to see)
The Globe and Mail has a good article about the movie including a conversation with Oliver Stone.
A choice quote from The Globe article follows:
I'd like to give a kudos to CBC for airing the movie after the American -- Time Warner owned -- TV channel HBO pulled the plug on it because they didn't like the way it portrayed Castro (ie. not as an "evil doer", as Bushy would like to see)
The Globe and Mail has a good article about the movie including a conversation with Oliver Stone.
A choice quote from The Globe article follows:
"The Americans have a view of Castro that is unfortunately rigid, he is a man who's seen a lot. Let's give him his chance to speak. I think they're worried they might like him."
Stone continues. "They don't like to listen. They don't want to give Hussein, or anybody, more airtime. The Vietnamese were faceless -- you make the enemy faceless, you can obviously get away with that for a long time."