Title Work Title No: 19087 Medium: Audio; Moving Image Date: 1988 (Release) Original Summary: "Includes brief pictorial history of Cuba (McKinley, Th. Roosevelt, battleship Maine, Platt Amendment) followed by biography of Castro (student days, the ship Granma, guerrilla war, execution of Battista's officers, C.I.A. sabotage, Bay of Pigs). Then explores these issues: nationalization of American businesses, Soviet aid and weapons, Cuba's role in Latin America, Nicaragua, Angola. Castro comments. Interviewed workers either praise the absence of social classes, socialized health and educational systems, or worry about corruption, cronyism, sloppiness in construction and other industries, theft of state property. Women imprisoned for latter offense in a model jail praise the prison and denounce their offenses. Also: brief discussions of divorce, art and culture, homosexuality, santero. Castro visits nuclear power plant and lens factory in closing sequences" -worldcat.org Genres: Documentary
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