HolyCoast: Cuba Banned Michael Moore's Healthcare Film - Too Mythical
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Cuba Banned Michael Moore's Healthcare Film - Too Mythical

This is just too funny:
Cuba banned Michael Moore's 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a "mythically" favourable picture of Cuba's healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a "popular backlash", according to US diplomats in Havana.

The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system.

But the memo reveals that when the film was shown to a group of Cuban doctors, some became so "disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba that they left the room".
Which is the reaction of most people to Michael Moore films.

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