Cuba After Castro

Join us for a unique opportunity to learn about what really is happening in Cuba and just who the top leader of the country is.   Massachusetts Peace Action is holding an exclusive showing of the film, “Cuba After Castro”, to be followed by a discussion facilitated by me, Merri Ansara, just returned from many months in Cuba.  

Months before NBC and Kristen Welker made popular headlines with their interview with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal, Abby Martin and Matt Belen with Breakthrough News made their nterview with President Diaz-Canal,  an indepth view beyond trite headlines and questions like “will you step down,” revealing more fully who he actually is and represents and what actually is going on in Cuba.  

The first leader of Cuba born after the Cuban Revolution, President Diaz-Canal came into office confronting a perfect storm of intensified U.S. sanctions, a media war, a devastating pandemic, and historic domestic protests. Díaz-Canel reflects on navigating these existential crises for the nation he has come to lead. 

Miguel Diaz-Canal was nominated by and succeeds Raul Castro, last of the Castros to hold power in Cuba. Now Raul Castro has been indicted by the United States for a fatal incident in 1996 when 2 American planes piloted by Cuban Americans from Miami, flew right into Cuban airspace despite many warnings to the U.S. from Cuba.

Based on the indictment of Raul Castro, reminiscent of the kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Maduro, the United States is threatening to invade Cuba, making it more of an imperative than ever to understand what is happening in Cuba, and just who the President of this country is.

Join us for the film and for a discussion at Mass Peace Action in Cambridge May 29, 7:00 pm.. Sign up to attend.