Castro rebel video game is huge hit in Cuba

[Joe Shlabotnik]

It is a revolutionary video game in the real sense of the word.

As the industry gears up for the Christmas market, gamers in Havana are already hooked on a homegrown production.

They are reliving the rebel exploits of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara with “Gesta Final”, a very modern take on Cuba’s past.

“Games play an important role for the youth of today,” said Jorge Luis Rosell, the developer behind the hit venture.“And now we can take advantage of this so that they can have fun and learn about our history.”

Roughly translated as “Final Feat”, the 3D game recreates the guerrilla war that saw Castro’s forces overthrow the military regime of President Fulgeneio Batista in 1959.

http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/29/castro-rebel-video-game-is-huge-hit-in-cuba/

[Marksman_91]

1. Wonder if the Ven. Government would approve...

Oh, that's right, they actually outlawed the selling of violent video games.

[Judi Lynn]

2. If the filthy scum, US bloody puppet Fulgencio Batista didn't have it coming,

then no one would.

He and the racist right-wing trash which ran the Cuban government are lucky they weren't treated as vilely as were the "leftists" they tried to exterminate in the run-up to the revolution.

Thumbnail description of this evil, sadistic a-hole who triggered the revolution:

FULGENCIO BATISTA

President of Cuba

Cuban Army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista first seized power in a 1932 coup. He was President Roosevelt's handpicked dictator to counteract leftists who had overthrown strongman Cerardo Machado. Batista ruled or several years, then left for Miami, returning in 1952 just in time for another coup, against elected president Carlos Prio Socorras. His new regime was quickly recognized by President Eisenhower. Under Batista, U.S. interests flourished and little was said about democracy. With the loyal support of Batista, Mafioso boss Meyer Lansky developed Havana into an international drug port. Cabinet offices were bought and sold and military officials made huge sums on smuggling and vice rackets. Havana became a fashionable hot spot where America's rich and famous drank and gambled with mobsters. As the gap between the rich and poor grew wider, the poor grew impatient. In 1953, Fidel Castro led an armed group of rebels in a failed uprising on the Moncada army barracks. Castro temporarily fled the country and Batista struck back with a vengeance. Freedom of speech was curtailed and subversive teachers, lawyers and public officials were fired from their jobs. Death squads tortured and killed thousands of "communists". Batista was assisted in his crackdown by Lansky and other members of organized crime who believed Castro would jeopardize their gambling and drug trade. Despite this, Batista remained a friend to Eisenhower and the US until he was finally overthrown by Castro in 1959.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2844.htm

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What a dirty shame so many of them merely moved their households to South Florida, where, as Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has explained, they thoroughly expected the US would steal Cuba away from the people and return them the "exiles" to power.

Ileana, they don't want you back.

[Socialistlemur]

4. Batista is old news

I guess the dictator who merits being deposed is Raul Castro.

[joshcryer]

3. So, America's Army, Cuba style?

Their website doesn't load but here's their FB page (many users asking for the game for personal use; looks like it's being set up in "programming centers" going by the video and there's no download for it): https://www.facebook.com/GestaFinal