News - 06-29-06-2
Garcia Film on Cuba To Play Raleigh
Just in time before the Raleigh Spy Conference addresses what will happen in Cuba “after Fidel,” The Lost City, a film by Cuban-born actor Andy Garcia, will play Raleigh theatres July 7. The film has had limited screenings due to criticism by pro-Castro political activists and reviewers who are upset the film does not play to the party line that depicts Cuba before the Castro take-over as a downtrodden peasant society ripe for revolution.
Instead, the film depicts Cuba through the eyes of Garcia as a member of a middle-class Havana family at the time of the 1959 rebellion. Garcia sees Cuba as it really was: the most economically advanced nation in Latin America and on a par with most advanced countries with high wages, high agricultural yields and a large and productive middle class. The data are clear that Castro’s take-over was largely a university-directed Soviet-financed grab for power to establish a communist state—hardly the peasant revolution depicted in the press.
Raleigh Spy Conference speaker Humberto Fontova comments on The Lost City at www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/4/ 30/233226.shtml.
Raleigh’s Ambassador Entertainment has not decided at this writing which of its theaters will show the film: The Rialto, The Colony or Mission Valley.