{"id":21570,"date":"2010-12-18T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T14:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21570"},"modified":"2010-12-18T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T14:01:20","slug":"wikileaks-cuba-didnt-like-the-propaganda-in-sicko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21570","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks: Cuba didn’t like the propaganda in “Sicko”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian<\/a> reports that one Wikileak-released State Department cable discussed the Cuban reaction to Michael Moore’s Oscar-nominated (for the lack of a better word) documentary “Sicko”, supposedly a comparison of the US health care system and that of the Caribbean island.<\/p>\n

Cuba banned Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a “mythically” favourable picture of Cuba’s healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a “popular backlash”, according to US diplomats in Havana.<\/p>\n

The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system.<\/p>\n

But the memo reveals that when the film was shown to a group of Cuban doctors, some became so “disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba that they left the room”.<\/p>\n

Castro’s government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it “knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most of the readers here probably aren’t shocked by these revelations, but why would the government keep revelations like this quiet? Unless there is an agenda at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian reports that one Wikileak-released State Department cable discussed the Cuban reaction to Michael Moore’s … Wikileaks: Cuba didn’t like the propaganda in “Sicko”<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}