CBS Sunday Morning glowingly promoted a Broadway play about a controversial Cuban band, without once mentioning the word communism, and barely mentioning the Cuban Revolution. Its report promoting “Buena Vista Social Club” should be viewed as no less than softcore communist propaganda.
Watch this eye-popping segment towards the end of the report:
MARTHA TEICHNER: Brought to life on a Broadway stage: the old songs, as they were played in the 1940s and ’50s at the actual Buena Vista Social Club, a members-only Havana nightclub for working-class black Cubans. It was shut down after Castro came to power in 1959. The events of the Cuban Revolution lurk at the edges of the show.
ACTOR: It’s not your fault the world made us take sides. Until one day, there were only two types of Cubans. Those who stayed and those who left.
TEICHNER: Playing…
