Two Cuban documentaries show effects of US sanctions on island nation

Two Cuban documentaries show effects of US sanctions on island nation

A Cuban journalist is looking to spread awareness of the US trade embargo in two illuminating documentaries arriving in early 2024.

Liz Oliva Fernández says whenever she covered news or events on the island, be it the push for democratic reforms, or the private businesses springing up after the Castros loosened their grip on power, they always intersected with the sanctions.

Those sanctions, first imposed six decades ago, are the subject of Uphill on the Hill, and Hardliner on the Hudson.

Oliva Fernández, who traveled to the US to promote the films she co-created, says the sanctions “have a huge impact”. “We’re not talking about a small country in the Caribbean sanctioning another one,” she said. “We’re talking [about] an empire like the United States that not only stops Cuba having normal relations with the United States, but also stops it having normal relations with the rest of the world.”

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