‘The War on Cuba’ Doc Miniseries Exposes the Damage U.S. Policies Have Had on Cuba’s Economy & Communities
There is little nuance in public discourse about Cuba. Even six decades after the rupture between the United States and Cuba ushered in by the socialist Cuban Revolution in 1959, polarized views—from the anti-communist Miami Cuban exile community or from leftist apologists for the Castro regimes—still dominate in the media. But this dichotomy doesn’t represent the majority of Cubans’ perspectives or even those held by Cuban Americans.
Belly of The Beast is a new Havana-based media project headed by Cubans that is looking to change that. The project is produced with the collaboration and financial support of American partners, including notable leftist Hollywood names Oliver Stone and Danny Glover. The organization seeks to counter “parachute journalism” and allow Cubans to tell their own stories to Western, particularly American, audiences. Their mission is to go beyond the distorted narratives about the relationship between the two countries that are propagated both by Cuban state-run media outlets and by U.S.-based media.
Their new documentary miniseries, The War on Cuba, which premiered on YouTube on October 9, is meant to expose the political and economic interests driving U.S. policy and the ways it harms Cubans on both sides of the Florida Strait (while claiming to not be blind to the Cuban government’s faults).
In fact, the documentary’s message hews quite closely to a Cuban government perspective, which it aims to present to an American audience. Documentary host and journalist Liz Oliva Fernández reproduces many talking points found on the Cuban news regarding the harm the U.S. embargo—referred to as “economic warfare”—does to everyday citizens on the island. That said, it does manage to emphasize the human costs of the embargo by highlighting the situation of Cuban entrepreneurs.
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