¿POR QUÉ PROMOVER UNA PROPAGANDA SINIESTRA?   NETFLIX: NO PROMUEVAS PROPAGANDA CASTRISTA Y   LASTIMES MÁS A LAS VÍCTIMAS VERDADERAS

July 30th, 2020
Wilmot Reed Hastings
President & CEO
Netflix
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Los Gatos California 95032
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Penelope Cruz
Edgar Ramirez
Wagner Moura
Gael Garcia Bernal
Ana de Armas
Leonardo Sbaraglia

Dear Mr. Hastings:

The murderous Castro regime has spent over six decades spinning their atrocities while depriving Cubans of their basic human rights.  The embargo and the Cuban exiles top their “go to” excuses for their failures and crimes.  Anytime they are faced with the reality of their actions sympathizers will step in repeating the regime’s mantra. “The Wasp Network” culminates this point with an insidious marketing trifecta: book, turned star-studded movie that is now internationally distributed – as “true”. It is in the peddling this as “true” that we reach out to Netflix since that is precisely the role it has placed itself in by buying the rights of distribution in the U.S. and other key international markets.  Netflix accepts the presentation of this film as “True” and builds on that by billing it as such on all Netflix marketing platforms (sample below). Now Netflix has become the latest influencer propping up a decrepit, criminal regime and turning a blind eye to all their victims.

Oliver Assayas wrote the screenplay and directed “The Wasp Network” film based on a book titled “Last Soldiers of the Cold War” by Cuban Regime sympathizer Fernando Morais. Morais, a staunch supporter of the Castro regime, is a Brazilian writer utilizing the literary format to present propaganda all dressed up and marketed in a book format. It was Ricardo Alarcon, Cuban former head of the communist regimes’ assembly of popular power who thought of his “old and proven friend” Morais for a book. Back in 2005 Alarcon and Morais met at “El Floridita” in Havana[1] where Morais committed to dedicating himself to writing about “the five”.
“The Wasp Network” film takes the regime’s talking points and promotional objective from print to film.

Internationally recognized actors uttering the mantras; the embargo (not the regime) blamed for Cuba’s condition, downplaying the level and reach of the WASP network’s espionage and murder conspiracy, the blanket labeling and portrayal of Cuban exiles as terrorists, attempted justification for crimes proven in a court of law and total disregard for the real victims. This is straight out of the Cuban Regime’s playbook and it is ‘now playing’ under the false and slanderous pretense of being “Based on True Events”.

The film also has a brazen disregard for federal law, specifically, Title III & IV of the Cuban Libertad Act by utilizing property stolen by the Cuban regime during this for-profit venture. The Pollack Mansion in Havana Cuba for example, is the site location where the wedding reception scene is filmed. By conducting a for-profit business within the footprint of stolen property in Cuba, the filmmakers are in breach of federal law. Netflix has now purchased the rights to this film knowing that it features the evidence of the illegal activity taking place.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance “ARC” the coalition of pro-democracy groups inside and outside Cuba demands the following:

Netflix:
Removal of “Based on True Events” on Netflix promotional media –Given the degree of regime rhetoric, false narrative and facts withheld, Netflix is adding its name and reputation towards the legitimization the Cuban Regime’s talking points. This movie was based on a book whose origins clearly establish its motive for being published.

Addition of the four victims of the Brothers to the Rescue Massacre:
Armando Alejandre Jr., Carlos Costa, Mario De La Peña and Pablo Morales. Since Netflix purchased the exhibition rights to US and other major markets for this film, the images, names, ages, and birthplace of the four victims of the murder conspiracy must be added and cannot be ignored.