Has no one bothered to look? It wasn't banned in cuba, ever.
here is the article in the state sponsored newspaper...surely a piece of propaganda... I just couldn't figure out what it would be for.
http://www.5septiembre.cu/index.php/internacionales/47-noticias/12821-iviva-wikileaks-qsickoq-no-fue-prohibido-en-cuba
and if you don't speak Spanish.
WikiLeaks did something amazing yesterday and issued a classified cable to the State Department was, in part, about me and my film, "Sicko" .
It is an awesome look to the Orwellian nature of how state bureaucrats spin their lies and trying to recreate reality (I guess to appease their bosses and tell them what they want to hear).
The date is January 31, 2008. Just days after Sicko was nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary. This must have gone mad at someone in the Bush State Department (the Treasury Department was immediately notified me that they were investigating what laws could be broken by taking three of the first rescue workers to Cuba on November 11 to be given the care that was denied in the United States).
Former health insurance executive, Wendell Potter , recently revealed that the insurance industry, which had decided to spend millions to go against me and, if necessary , "Michael Moore to push off a cliff" - had begun working with the anti-Castro Cubans in Miami to get them to talk to who slandered my film .
Thus, the January 31, 2008, a State Department official stationed in Havana took an invented story and sent it back to its headquarters in Washington. This is what they suggested:
XXXXXXXXXXXX said that Cuban authorities have banned Michael Moore's documentary, "Sicko," to be subversive. Although the intention of the film is to discredit the health system in the U.S., highlighting the excellence of the Cuban system, said the regime knows that the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash to show Cubans facilities that are clearly not available for the vast majority of them.
Sounds convincing huh? Only one problem: all the people of Cuba saw the film on national television on April 25, 2008! The Cubans liked the movie became one of those rare American movies that received a theatrical distribution Cuba. Personally, I took a copy of 35 mm reached the Instituto de Cine de La Habana.
The screening of "Sicko" was held in cities throughout the country. . But the secret cable said that Cubans are banned from seeing my movie. Hmmm.
We also know from other U.S. secret document "The disappointment of the [masses in Cuba] has spread to all provinces" and that "the whole province of East is seething with hatred" against the Castro regime. There is a large active underground rebellion, and "workers easily give all necessary support" to everyone involved in a "subtle sabotage" against the government. The morale is terrible in all branches of the armed forces, and if war the army "will not fight." Tremendo - this cable is hot!
Of course, the U.S. secret cable is 31 March 1961 , three weeks before Cuba kicked some *** in the Bay of Pigs.
The U.S. government has been happening these documents "secret" to himself in the last fifty years, explaining in minute detail how terrible is the situation in Cuba and how the Cubans are suffering in silence so that we can go back and take control. Do not know why we write these cables, I guess it just makes us feel better about ourselves. (Anyone curious can find a museum full of wish-fulfillment leads the U.S. in the website of the National Security Archive.)
So what to do with a fake cable almost "secret", especially one that involves you and the film? Well, you expect a responsible newspaper to investigate and to shout from the rooftops what you discover.
But WikiLeaks was yesterday released on cable "Sicko" in Cuba to the media - and what they did to him? They did move as if it were true! Here's the headline in the newspaper The Guardian : "WikiLeaks: Cuba Sicko banned by describing" a mythical 'health system. The authorities feared that images of gleaming hospitals in the film of Michael Moore, nominated for an Oscar, provoked a reaction popular. "
And none of a thorough investigation to see if Cuba had banned the film really! In fact, quite the contrary. The right-wing press began to have a field day reporting a lie ( Andy Levy , Fox - twice - RevistaReason and Hot Air , and a lot of blogs ). Unfortunately, even BoingBoing and friends of The Nation wrote about it without skepticism. So here we have to WikiLeaks, which has been on line to find and release these wires to the press - and mainstream journalists, once again too lazy to lift a finger, pointing and clicking the mouse to access Nexis or search through Google and see if Cuba really "banned the film." If only a reporter would have done this, this is what was found:
June 16, 2007 Saturday 1:41 GMT [ie seven months before the fake cable]
HEADLINE: Cuban Health Minister said that Michael Moore's film Sicko shows "human values" of a communist system.
Byline: By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
LA HABANA
Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer Cuba, said on Friday that U.S. documentary filmmaker Michael Moore "Sicko" highlights the human values of the communist government of the island ... "There can be no doubt that this documentary is a personality like Mr. Michael Moore helps promote the profoundly human principles of Cuban society.
How about this little news of April 25, 2008 in Cubasi.cu (Google translation):
Sicko premiered in Cuba 25/04/2008
The documentary Sicko, American filmmaker Michael Moore, which is about the deplorable state of U.S. health care system will be released today at 5:50 pm, in the space Cubavisión Roundtable and the Education Channel.
Then there is this from JuventudRebelde.cu . Or the Cuban publishing . There is even a long clip of Cuba section that appears in 'Sicko' on the multimedia page website Cubasi.cu in the channel Roundtable .
OK, we know that the media are lazy and most will not work. But the biggest problem here is how our government seemed to be in collusion with the health insurance industry to destroy a film that could lend a hand to induce what the Cubans are in a third world country ravaged by poverty: health free and universal. And because they have it and we do not, Cuba has a rate of infant mortality lower than ours , their life expectancy is only seven months below ours, and, according to the WHO, are ranked just two places behind the richest country in the world in terms of quality medical care.
This is history, so you know the mainstream media and the enemies of right.
Now that you have presented the facts, what are you going to do about it? Going to attack me because my film was screened at the Cuban state television? Or do they attack me because my film projected on Cuban state television?
Have to choose one, can not be both.
And since the facts show that the film was screened on national television and in cinemas, I think it's better than attacking me for having my film screened in Cuba.
WikiLeaks Viva!
). Still, I do not understand why some US official in La Habana felt it necessary to spread lies about a liar and I simply shake my head at irresponsible news outlets trying to rush news out without fact-checking. All these news outlets needed to do was Google "sicko prohibido cuba" to fact-check that info.
