Cuba

[paul phillips <phillipsp@xxxxxxx>]

Just finished watching the two-hour documentary on Cuban agriculture,
medicine, education, etc., produced for CBC TV by David Suzuki, "The
Nature of Things."  It had been broadcast over two weeks by CBC but,
since we were away both times, we had recorded it and tonight was the
first time I had a chance to sit down and watch the whole thing.

Wow! Totally inspirational.  Of course, there were the required comments
about the lack of bourgeois democracy at the end of each of the two
segments, but they were far less critical than the comments about
American imperialism before the revolution.  In any case, what the
documentary shows is the enormous humanitarian/ecological advances that
Cuba has made in agriculture, education and medicine -- but more
importantly, in  developing a sense of compassionate commitment to human
values.  And a very human face to the Cuban revolution.

I wonder if US audiences will be  allowed to see this documentary.  The
stuff on agriculture was nothing new to me as I have an article on the
subject coming out in the next issue of Canadian Dimension. But in the
'movie' version it is so much more dynamic. And it is totally subversive
of agribusiness values.  Louis, I would appreciate your review.

Paul P


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