Cuba
How Cuban punk rockers injected themselves with HIV to escape political repression
The movie, premiering this month, is based on real events in the early 1990s, when a group of young people in Cuba were looking for freedom from government repression.
A coming-of-age movie with a dramatic punk rock twist has a storyline that may sound unreal, but it's based on true events.
In "Los Frikis," set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young, disenfranchised Cubans inject themselves with HIV during the earl... [5016 chars]