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December 19, 2010

Diplomatic Cable leak: Cuba banned Moore's "Sicko"

Ouch, when the hard left Guardian blows the whistle on a commie like Moore, you know its gotta be pretty bad.

...Castro'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."...
...The memo points out that even the Cuban ruling elite leave Cuba when they need medical care. Fidel Castro, for example, brought in a Spanish doctor during his health crisis in 2006. The vice-minister of health, Abelardo Ramirez, went to France for gastric cancer surgery. The neurosurgeon whoheads CIMEQ [Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Quirúrgicas] hospital – widely regarded as one of the best in Cuba – came to England for eye surgery, returning periodically for checkups...
Cuba: come for the warm weather.
Leave FAST if you get sick.


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