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Sean Penn to interview with Fidel Castro in Cuba for Vanity Fair

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/27/sean-penn-fidel-castro-vanity-fair

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The actor Sean Penn has flown to Cuba to chase what would be the biggest scoop of his career as a part-time journalist: an interview with Fidel Castro.

The Oscar winner, who last year bagged interviews with Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez, is reportedly on assignment for Vanity Fair in his quest to meet Cuba's former president.

In a sign of Havana's approval the communist party newspaper Granma covered Penn's visit yesterday to the Island of Youth, where he visited a gallery and met artists.

According to the online magazine tmz.com Penn hopes to ask Fidel about Cuba's evolving relationship with the Obama administration.
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29 comments // Sean Penn to interview with Fidel Castro in Cuba for Vanity Fair

  • UrbanGypsy
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      UrbanGypsy  

    • Let's hope he asks him some real questions. He can start by asking Castro why journalist Jose Alejandro's critical piece that ran on Juventud Rebelde was pulled down and not allowed to appear on the paper the next morning.

      He can also ask him why there is no freedom of speech in Cuba and why Cubans are paid in Cuban pesos (which are worth 24 times less than the CUC) and yet everything that is of value in the stores are priced in CUC?

      He can ask him why Cubans are not allowed to leave the country...

      He should ask him why Cubans are not allowed to own their own livestock in their own farms...

      And finally he should ask him "how is any of this is the fault of the embargo?"

    • 2 years ago
  • stealthc
  • quanta
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      quanta  

    • Sean Penn,,,,,,,,, journalist,,,,,,,,,Cuba,,, Castro,,,,,,,, Me thinks he's confused about his future and is making a wild attempt at recognition. I'll be surprised if anythng comes of this , Castro is ill and I don't beleive one of his major concerns would be speaking with SP

    • 2 years ago
  • Marbled_Godwit
  • S3th
  • thewarnerla
  • s0uthc0ast
  • My_America
  • tome_erau
  • J_Jammer
  • J_Jammer
  • Manatee_man
  • dabne
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      dabne  

    • Hopefully Spicoli can ask some legitimate questions. He may be too stoned and infatuated with the communist dictator to do so.

      Here are some questions the communist "journalist" ( I just laughed while writing journalist) should ask:

      Why has Castro funded terrorist "guerrilla" groups throughout the hemisphere generating terror and fear for decades?

      Why has Castro's regime created the most repressive police state apparatus in the Western Hemisphere?

      Why has Cuba refused to ratify any major international law enshrining fundamental human rights?

      Why has it refused to sign the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?

      Why are large numbers of individuals incarcerated in Castro's prisons for political crimes ranging from speaking against the regime to trying to leave the island?

      Why is trying to leave Cuba without government sanction a criminal offense punishable by prison? Due to this Cubans are unable to build large seaworthy crafts, and resort to innertubes in search of freedom.

      Why has Castro had a long tradition of imprisoning homosexuals and transexuals simply because they are viewed as "undesirables?"

      Those are just some ideas for Spicoli, but something tells me he'll pass on them.

    • 2 years ago
  • nursediesel
  • BobbyGonz
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      BobbyGonz  

    • Done quite well to avoid private ownership? How exactly, with failing infrastructure, regular power outages and a failed medical system? The socialist sympathizers who live in comfort in the US and elsewhere should experience a single day as a Cuban trapped on the island.

    • 2 years ago
  • trut
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      trut  
    • BobbyGonz:

      Luckily the scum are leaving the island. Traitors have been executed, Castro did what he had to do to keep the foreigners from buying up Cuba and turning the population into serfs.

    • 2 years ago
  • trut
  • anphan78
  • stealthc
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      stealthc  
    • trut:

      The word is "yoke".

      I will never understand the appeal of socialism/communism to some people. What's so awesome about turning your country into a death cult?

    • 2 years ago
  • Betico
  • UrbanGypsy
  • jlichman
  • BobbyGonz
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      BobbyGonz  

    • These sycophants (Stone, Penn and others) who fawn for despots are revolting. The Castro regime has murdered, jailed and separated Cubans for 50 years. The regime has destabilized foreign governments and orchestrated wars. If given this interview Penn will swoon like a school girl, no tough questions will be asked and all images will be state approved. Sean Penn should be ashamed of himself.

    • 2 years ago
  • MilchMann
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      MilchMann  
    • BobbyGonz:

      Wait, what? It sounds like you are describing the United States... and inserting names like Castro and Cuba... what wars has the man orchestrated? Murdering and separating? I think the US and China have majority share in that market... come on guy, you can not really be that naive... can you?

    • 2 years ago
  • BobbyGonz
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      BobbyGonz  
    • BobbyGonz:

      The firing squads started in early January 1959. Cuba has thousands of political prisoners. The Cuban exodus began shortly after Castro took power. Their influence goes as far back as the war in Angola and as recently as Fidel Castro's influence on Chavez. China is a totalitarian state, obviously the world's largest, but that does not alter the Castro regime's oppression of the Cuban populace.

    • 2 years ago
  • GoodGodGuy
  • eden49
  • afitzgerald
  • bansheewail
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