Steven Soderbergh Criticizes Washington’s Hostile Cuba Policy CUBA, October 6, 2008. US movie maker Steven Soderbergh criticized the US economic blockade of Cuba by describing it as senseless and a policy only supported by a small circle of people. Soderbergh made his statements after the presentation of his film “Che”, during the inaugural ceremony of the Morelia International Film Festival, which opened in the Mexican city of Michoacan, PL news agency reported. The US film maker said he has never understood the US presence in the Cuban territory of Guantanamo, since the occupation by a foreign country of the territory of another nation in order to keep a military base is unthinkable. Washington’s occupation of Guantanamo seemed something strange at first, but now it has become a tragedy, said Soderbergh, who is the director, producer, screenwriter and photographer of his film about the Cuban-Argentinean revolutionary fighter Ernesto Che Guevara. The US film maker said he was attracted by Che´s personality and his adoption of revolutionary action. Soderbergh, who won an Oscar in 2000 for his movie Traffic, explained that there are many ways to approach the personality of Che, and that his film obviously perceives Che from the perspective of a non-Hispanic person. (Cubaminrex- ACN)