December 18, 2010
SUBLIME:
WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting 'mythical' healthcare system: Authorities feared footage of gleaming hospital in Michael Moore's Oscar-nominated film would provoke a popular backlash (Amelia Hill, 12/17/10, guardian.co.uk)
[T]he 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".Posted by Orrin Judd at December 18, 2010 1:04 PMCastro's government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it "knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them."