The Cuba Libre Story

I took off 1 star because most of the series covers from 1900 to the present and I wish they had spent more time on earlier history. Also they mostly focused on rural Cuba and ignored Havana.

Overall I still I thought this series was very informative because they talked to a lot of people who were there at the time. That means you don't have to just rely on historians to tell you what they think. They interview Cubans on the island as well as in exile - that is as fair and objective as you can get. Maybe the people that think this series is biased shouldn't assume the subtitles catch everything and give it to you verbatim.

The way this series protraits the revolution and the histroy of cuba will make you feel like its just another American propoganda. Except cuban historians, all other western historians are their to tell you about cuba and also, no one seems to care about the American intervention.

You should ask yourself before you start to watch this series, why netflix is showing just the cuban revolution of all other revolutions and struggles in the world!!???

The lease is available online. It is not a long document. The standard cover story for the US is repeated. For example, that the lease is perpetual. That the rent is some 4000 a year. There is no excuse for not reading the lease and seeing what the actual terms are. A careful review undercuts the US claim that it occupies Guantanamo legally, unfortunately.

As a student of history I found this series to be very beneficial in understanding the history and culture of Cuba. I disagree with the other review that claims that this narrative is one sided. The events in Cuban history are detailed and explained which helps the viewer to understand what brought Cuba to the point it is today. As there long struggle is explained, one can see that Cuba still has a long way to go to really become free. Yes, Castro was no hero and was a dictator who murdered thousands and turned on many of his friends. To leave that out would do Cuba an injustice. Hopefully we can see the day when we have normal relations with the island nation as this older generation of leaders in Cuba die off and American Presidents don't feel the need to "politicize" the issue of Cuba, and reverse progress toward normalization like Trump did.

Unfortunately it is far away being objective...Poor one sided American narrative based on mostly exile Cuban accounts: The revolution in Cuba is almost a coincedence, Castro brothers are bloody dictators, USA "only" tried to protect their financial interest, the bad Soviet guys did not wait for a sec to cooperatw with evil Cuba. A waste of time unless you are interested in propoganda movies.