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Netflix Sued Over Inaccurate Portrayal of Cuban Exiles in ‘Wasp Network’

Netflix is getting sued again. After a lawsuit was pinned against the streaming service for their acquisition of the French film ‘Cuties’, Netflix is getting hit with a defamation suit over its film Wasp Network. In the film about Cuban exiles in America, Ana de Armas plays Ana Margarita Martinez. Martinez claims that she was portrayed as a “promiscuous party girl”.

Martinez further claims that Wasp Network romanticized the “clandestine operations of Fidel Castro’s regime and downplayed its crimes”. Martinez named Olivier Assayas, the director; as a defendant. Martinez escaped from Cuba as a child in the 1960s. She was active in the anti-Castro exile community in the 1990s in Florida. She ended up marrying Juan Pablo Roque, portrayed by Wagner Moura in the film. Juan Pablo Roque was seemingly another exile, but it was later revealed he was a Cuban spy. It was also revealed that he had married Martinez specifically to help his cover, as well as help him spy on exiles.

Wasp Network was shot with the cooperation of the Cuban government. In the suit, Martinez argues that Cuban exiles are made to look like “terrorists” in the film. Martinez also claims she was falsely portrayed as a woman living a:

“Lavish lifestyle paid for by drug money and terrorist activities.”

Martinez was a hard-working mother who claims she had to support her husband financially and was devastated that her husband had abruptly left in 1996. And that he was revealed to be a Castro spy.

The suit further states:

“Defendants are willfully damaging Ms. Martinez’s name and reputation while re-traumatizing her by bringing to fore events of the past that significantly disrupted the course of her life.”

The suit continues:

“The Film conceals the fact that Ms. Martinez was a victim of sexual assault conceived and implemented with cold-blooded efficiency by an agent of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior.”

What do you think about the suit against Wasp Network?

Source: Variety

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