Is this how things really like?

I am Cuban, and I emigrated to Spain and later the United States. I have not seen this movie in years, so I cannot give you an answer as to whether the movie is accurate. However, I assure you that Cuba is a beautiful country that unfortunately is led by a ruthless regime. Castro is a tyrant that manipulates liberal, romantic people in other countries. Castro puts much emphasis on literacy rates, and medicine because those are areas that are very easy to quantify and brag about. It is easy for him to defend his regime by speaking of the literacy rate, the infant mortality rate, and life expectancy. However, the areas that are just as important (if not more) and are impossible to quantify, such as human rights, are the areas where Cubans are heavily oppressed. For example, Cuba has only one newspaper and it is government run. Therefore, there is no criticism of the government by the media. In addition, there is a strong persecution of homosexuals. For instance, if one is found to be a homosexual while studying at a university, expulsion is assured. Also, because Communism strives to create an equality in the people, everyone must live at the lowest common denominator. In other words, instead of everyone being equal and prosperous, everyone is equal and living well below the poverty line, crippling the hard-working, intelligent people. Sure, it is easy to think that Castro's revolution is a beautiful Latin American effort against the United States. However, you will find that the people who think this live in developed Western nations, most likely the United States. At which point one must ask, if the revolution is so wonderful, why is this person living in the United States instead of Cuba? And why have hundreds of thousands of Cubans risked, and lost, their lives to reach the United States?

Just remember that most of what you hear is biased, regardless of what side it is on. The movie was great. But it was extremely biased. It was done by a Cuban from Miami (who islander Cubans call "gusanos"). If you are Cuban and live in Miami, you hate Fidel, socialism and all that. On the other hand, you don't hear much about the people who actually live in Cuba, where the majority of people still support and believe in the revolution.

Some of the things the movie portrays are sadly true, and the government does do a lot of horrible things.

The movie correctly depicts the hardship that RICH and educated families went/are going through. But it doesn't address at all the majority of Cubans, those who before the revolution had absolutely nothing.

~Nothing Crushes Us~