Friday, May 11, 2007

Moore 'breached embargo on Cuba' in film production

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 11 May 2007

The Oscar-winning director Michael Moore is being investigated by the Bush administration after he took a number of rescue workers to Cuba for medical treatment - allegedly breaching a US embargo on travelling to the Caribbean nation.

Moore travelled to Cuba earlier this year with a number of ailing workers who had toiled at Ground Zero in New York. He took them to film a segment for his upcoming film Sicko, which he hopes will confront the US health industry in much the same way that his 2002 film Bowling for Columbine took on the gun-rights lobby. continue...

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