The 2024 Lighthouse International Film Festival’s opening film will be “Los Frikis.”
DESPERATE TIMES: The 1980s’ Frikis movement saw people willing to inject themselves with HIV to gain entry to a sanitorium in order to escape suffering at the hands of the Cuban government. See the film at LBIF June 6. (Supplied Photo)
Communist Cuba’s economy has never been robust, thanks in large part to a U.S. embargo, but in the 1990s it was especially rocky.
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