P.M. Affair
The P.M. affair was a political scandal that occurred in Cuba in 1961. After a brief period of artistic optimism beginning in 1959, where exiled artists returned to Cuba, the banning of the film ''p.M.'' triggered a slow wave of emigration of Cuban filmmakers, who grew more frustrated with growing censorship in Cuba. The banning of the film ''p.M.'' was not a lone act of censorship which caused pessimism among filmmakers, instead, the censorship of ''P.M.'' was viewed to exemplify a growing atmosphere of artistic overwatch. In the aftermath of the film's censorship, Castro gave his famous Words to the Intellectuals speech, outlining his cultural policy that forbids expression of ideas critical of "the revolution". Background Cuban media and censorship After the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, there was a brief literary boom in Cuba. The magazine ''Lunes de Revolución'' was developed to be a weekly version of the magazine ''Revolución''. The magazine was edited by Guill ...
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