Chavez troops facing off against the people of Caracas
Yes, these are the tear-gassed enemies of the state of Chavez. Don't they look like cruel and nasty paramilitary forces paid off by the US government to you?
Posted on 09/08/2009 1:40:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Good-humored, illuminating and without cant, Oliver Stone's documentary "South of the Border" is a rebuttal of what he views as the fulminations and lies of right-wing media at home and abroad regarding the socialist democracies of South America.
Featuring interviews with seven national leaders who all express great affection for their neighbors to the north if not for historical U.S. foreign policy, the film suggests a clear way forward for a continent that has largely shaken off the grip of imperialism and what Stone calls predatory capitalism as opposed to benign capitalism.
Greeted with extended applause at its Venice press and industry screening, the film will fare well internationally and will attract liberal audiences in Stone's homeland. Conservative outrage could also spark wider interest, and it should thrive among educators and have a long ancillary life.
Clips from CNN and Fox News establish quickly the buffoonish tone with which news about South American politics is usually treated with democratically elected leaders invariably depicted as dictators, but Stone also indicts the network news and media institutions including the New York Times.
Following a brief history of the events in Venezuela that led to the presidency of Hugo Chavez, Stone shows how the media in that country altered film of violent demonstrations to show his supporters firing on their opposition and how those images were fed to the rest of the world. He details similar exaggerations in other countries and quotes facts and figures from each region.
His cameras follow Chavez, who was born in poverty, to the place of his childhood and on trips to a cattle farm and a plant that produces flou
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Chavez troops facing off against the people of Caracas
Yes, these are the tear-gassed enemies of the state of Chavez. Don't they look like cruel and nasty paramilitary forces paid off by the US government to you?
The End of Venezuela as I know it
Julia writes:
Last night, my boyfriend and I went to a fair about graduate schools all over the world (www.topuniversities.com). While he was distracted looking for pamphlets and business cards of the universities he likes the most, I was busier looking at the incredible amount of people just like us: young middle class Venezuelans whom just left the university looking not only for a studying opportunity but rather for a way – any way – that could let them get out of here.
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I’d like to see Oliver try an write anti goverment stories as a citizen of one of those countries he so loves to suck up to.
They love propaganda so long as it furthers their socialist agendas. Were he critical of their policies, celebrity or not, they’d whip his ass once a day an twice on Sunday.
He is the sort that would bitch if ya hung him with a new rope.
Featuring interviews with seven national leaders […]After he had met Stalin, H.G. Wells wrote: “I have never met a man more fair, candid, and honest” and made it clear that he felt the “sinister” image of Stalin was unfair or simply false.
Of course, they are at their most geniune when personally executing a shopkeeper or something
Well, he did write science fiction.
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I expect this behavior from the likes of Stone and Moore, they are part of a long tradition which includes that nauseating homage to Stalin, "Mission to Moscow". From news outlets I expect better even though I haven't see much lately. Hey Reuters, how is your stock of quote marks these days, you know the ones used around "terrorists" and "anarchists" etc.?
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