A documentary showing followed the talk called ‘The Day Diplomacy Died’, It aimed to set the record straight on Fidel Castro’s so-called ‘Crackdown’ in 2003 when 75 Cubans were arrested and jailed. The Documentary, which was about 30 min. in length, included four Cuban State agents speaking out for the first time on film why the Cuban government locked up these 75 “independent” journalists, trade unionists and librarians. They tell of the inner workings of the dissident groups they infiltrated and of the various, and often frightening, plans hatched to destabilize their country. Following this, a questions and answers session took place where members of the audience had a chance to put their queries to both the Cuban Ambassador and Bernie Dwyer, a co-director of the documentary.
To end the event a representative from NUI Galway presented a framed poster to the Ambassador on behalf of the student population in solidarity with the Cuban people. Speaking on the success of the event, Ógra Shinn Féin activist Luke Callinan had this to say, ‘The talk, which coincided with Latin America week, was a great success as it put forward an alternative opinion on what happened in relation to the Cuban revolution and specifically the jailing of 75 people by the Cuban Government. The questions and answers session at the end was also very interesting because it gave us a chance to ask the representatives questions on a number of different aspects of the talk and the documentary’.
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