HAVANA, July 5 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI) - A showing of the film "Thirteen
Days," planned for Friday, July 6, was cancelled by State Security agents,
who told organizers Ariel Hernández Cerviño and Rafael Ernesto Ávila
that if the planned event was not suspended they would be immediately arrested "or
worse."
The showing, to have been followed by a debate among the audience, a common
event here, was an initiative of two dissident groups, Nueva República
and Partido Popular Joven Cuba.
The film, dealing with the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, has already been
shown in Cuba. Its director, Kevin Costner, came to Cuba himself for a series of
showings in which government officials, historians, critics and even Cuban
president Fidel Castro saw it.
The public, however, has not had an opportunity to see the film because it
has not been shown in theaters. Government officials say the film has not been
shown because it is being "analyzed." Only a few, presumably bootleg,
copies of the film are available in clandestine video rental operations around
Havana.
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