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The film puts a large international Latin cast into a story about Cuban people. The main cast includes actors from Venezuela, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Cuba, and several reports noted that Ana de Armas was the clearest Cuban presence among the top names. Cuban and Latino reactions questioned the accents and the lack of more Cuban performers. The choice looks partly like an international star package, while Édgar Ramírez described it as a pan-American cast.

The film gives Olga and Ana major emotional roles beside the male spies. Olga raises her daughter alone, while Ana faces betrayal and rebuilds her life after Roque’s secret is exposed. Their stories add a woman-centered part, but they are family dramas rather than a modern gender campaign.

Miami Cuban exiles and critics called the film Castro-communist propaganda and said it glorified spies while smearing exile groups. A reported boycott petition passed 15,000 signatures, and José Basulto later sued Netflix over the portrayal of Brothers to the Rescue. Audience reviews repeat both the communist-propaganda complaint and the opposite view that the exile groups were terrorists. No anti-woke reaction was found on X, so the backlash is real but mostly anti-Castro and anti-left rather than DEI-focused.

Assayas has a political and anti-dictatorship background, but no strong DEI profile is documented in the cached context. Morais is a left-wing political writer whose work centers on Latin American history, not modern identity activism. Most listed producers have low or unclear woke context, while Fraiha and Torrealba have stronger links to LGBTQ, women-centered, and underrepresented stories. This gives the title moderate creator context, even though the film itself is mainly a historical spy drama.