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| Castro (Photo credit: wirewiping) |
Tonight I viewed a 2-hour documentary, Fidel Castro, part of
the PBS American Experience series. The range of expert opinion in this
disappointing documentary ranged narrowly from centrist American academics, CIA
and other officials to various representatives of the anti-Castro point-of-view
from Miami.
Nothing from today’s Havana. Very little of the economic
pressure directed by corporations against the regime from the outset. Nothing
of the displaced gambling interests. Did I miss mention of the kill-Castro
campaigns? Nothing of the humanizing music and baseball. No US-Cuban-other
nation comparisons on infant mortality rates, literacy rates, health care and
education performance, etc. Nothing of the Pope’s visit in the 1990s. Not a
word from one who can see both the good and bad of what Castro has created;
Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez would able and thought provoking on
this, especially in contrast to the already well represented Radio Marti group.
