The Truth About Che
Aussie Dave | Apr 25, 2006 | 3 comments
You can add Andy Garcia’s name to my list of Hollywood celebrities with their heads screwed on correctly. This according to the IMDB’s movie news:
Movie star Andy Garcia’s controversial new movie The Lost City has been banned in parts of South America because it depicts romantic revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in a terrible light. The Ocean’s Twelve star spent years trying to get the project made, only for film festival bosses and cinema chains to shun the movie because it tells the truth about the Marxist guerilla leader and the Cubans slayed as he fought to revolutionize the country and hand Fidel Castro leadership. Garcia, who wrote, directed and stars in the film, says, “There have been festivals that wouldn’t show it. That will continue to happen from people who don’t want to see the image of Che be tarnished and from people who support the Castro regime. He still has a lot of supporters out there. Some people think Castro is a savior, that he looks out for the kids and the poor. It’s a bunch of hogwash. In the 45 years since Castro came to power, Cuba has been in the top three countries for human rights abuses for 43 of those years. People turn a blind eye to his atrocities.”
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
I’ll be the first going to the release of the movie. If you havent try watching a documentary called Che anatomy of a Myth. Hollywood is making some sense at last.
Myself
Andy Garcia is a cuban and he knows how cute was Che Guevara,like those 2 millions of cuban refugees in Florida…
I saw an enormous Che picture in the hapoel jerusalem basket stadium when Real Madrid were there to play a final. I didnt heard anything about that from those israelis that always are complaining about Palestinian flags in spanish courts…
A terrorist is always a terrorist.
Great post. Glad to see there’s other people out there posting the truth about Che.