The War on Cuba

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An excellent documentary, produced by Oliver Stone, that gives an inside look on the effects of U.S. sanctions on Cuba. Here is the first of three parts.

In episode one, Oliva Fernández interviews a farmer who has prosthetic legs, which he gets free of charge through the famed Cuban universal healthcare system. He can’t access the higher quality prosthetics he really needs to work because the embargo prevents Cuba from buying them on the international market. We also see how the embargo prevents much-needed medication from getting into the country; recently, a Swiss company refused to sell Cuba ventilators because its parent company was American.

We also meet a baseball player who aspires to make it to the major leagues, but can no longer do so because the Trump administration eliminated the Cuba-MLB partnership, and the owner of the first independent design company in Cuba, Idania del Río. Del Río, an entrepreneur, talks to Liz about how all the gains she made with the normalization of relations under Obama were halted with Trump’s policy reversals that essentially cut off American tourism to Cuba. “Suffocating the private sector,” she says, “suffocat[es] Cuban people.” https://remezcla.com/features/film/war-cuba-doc-miniseries-review/