Ochoa

This obfuscatory march through the cesspool of Cuban politics seamlessly blends staged re-enactments of epochal events with actual videotape of political inquiries. Viewers unaware of the facts behind the execution of statesman Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez won't learn much here. As the film trots out dozens of witnesses and shapes their testimony around candid footage of the oppressive regime's grandstanding denunciations, the filmmakers make a case that Ochoa was martyred for his anti-Castro beliefs.

In 1989, former military hero General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez was the victim of a carefully orchestrated conspiracy launched by Fidel and Raoul Castro to eliminate the thre...