Cuban singer-songwriter Raúl Torres, a fervent defender of the regime, said he was disappointed in Argentine musician Fito Páez and called him irresponsible over the documentary Fito’s Havanaby director Juan Pin Vilar, whose exhibition was realized by the Cuban government without the filmmaker’s consent.
“I’m so sorry to feel the disappointment of the people I loved. Why do they become irresponsible and pathetic with time and money? This particular man helped me at a certain point in my career and was my paradigm and guide. Now, in the name of a big lie, he is corrupting everything absolutely beautiful and flawless in his career by speaking badly of Fidel,” Raúl Torres said in a Facebook post published this Sunday.
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The Cuban musician accused Fito Páez of “getting into our story with a weak and shaky narrative about the disappearance of Camilo, all because of the projection of a documentary shown without permission on Cuban television” in the aforementioned documentary.
In his opinion, he concedes that the documentary should never have been screened, but not because it was shot without the knowledge of its director, but “because of the unfortunate quality and the intolerable script and direction, brimming with manipulation and hyperbole… Cuban viewers don’t deserve to see a shitty movie like that… stop making it the truth.”
He closed his post with a threatening stance, saying that “there is no fear” and that he is prepared to respond with violence to those who oppose and attack his post.
been censored by the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT), in June, Cuban television screened the documentary “Havana de Fito” without the permission of its director Juan Vilar or the audiovisual production company.
In the audiovisual film, the director reflected on the complex Cuban reality under the critical gaze of Fito Páez and allowed important personalities of Ibero-American culture to bear witness.
After this episode, Vilar (known to many as Juan Pin) sent a letter to Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel showing this his dissatisfaction with the measurewhich he described as “a deplorable act that imposes a biased view on the documentary and subjects Fito Páez’s testimony to political questions or historical credulity”.