Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Cuba, Really?

I worked at an NGO in Washington, DC, over the summer that dealt with racial and ethnic disparities in the American healthcare system. Through working I was able to go to a screening of Salud!, a documentary recently released about Cuba's healthcare system. It was incredible! It turns out that Cuba has comparable health statistics to the US, and has an even lower infant mortality rate and a higher life expectancy. The nature of their healthcare system is drastically different than ours, and the film brought up several interesting issues. It is a great example of how misunderstood Cuba is, and since most of what we hear about Cuba is negative this film provides another way to look at our neighbor. Click on this link to go to the film's website and learn more about Cuba's system and the film.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Before forming an oppinion, you should try looking farther than a pro Cuba website.

This is a propaganda film.

Anonymous said...

I actually didn't think that this film was a propganda film, it was a documentary about the healthcare system in Cuba and did not address politics or anything dealing with Cuban American relations in any serious way. Perhaps you are confusing it with Michael Moore's film which is more directly political and was not what I was referring to.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous

I will definately have to give you some points there.

The film may not be intended to be political, but i certainly beleive it is biased.

And I will also qualify that by saying that any documentary I made, would likely reflect my own biases.