Fidel Castro and the Cuban government are once again tweaking his image. This time with an eight part docu-drama covering the 638 attempts they say have been made on his life.
Fidel may be on his last legs, but he’s going to make certain that his revolution lives on through his memory.
The production, directed by Rafael Ruiz Benitez is entitled “He who must live” and shows, according to NNT, “how Fidel’s life has always been in danger, threatened by 638 attacks plans which have been thwarted by the effective action the organs of state security, the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Cuban people.”
The first episode begins with the Granma yacht which took Fidel and 81 other guerrilla members to the site where they landed in eastern Cuba in 1956, and ends with the triumph of the Revolution.
The last episode covers the bombing of the auditorium of the University of Panama.
As a side note:
Reuters – Cuba severed diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday in anger at it’s outgoing leader pardoning four Cuban exiles imprisoned for plotting to kill President Fidel Castro in 2000.
Panama’s conservative President Mireya Moscoso, who leaves office next week, said she freed the Cubans for humanitarian reasons.
Three of the plotters were Cuban-born U.S. citizens and on their release they flew directly to a small airport in Miami, where they were met by their families.
Cuba’s TV series features actors playing Batista, the CIA director Allen Dulles and, it is thought, presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who authorized the murder attempts. A thaw after Barack Obama’s election has ended with Washington and Havana trading insults but the US has forsworn killing Castro.
