South of the Border Page #4

Synopsis: There's a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn't know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raul Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Production: Republic
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
45
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
78 min
207 Views


the Great Depression in the U.S..

A general strike by opponents

the government of President Chavez ...

forced the Supreme Court

to stop work today.

The entire oil industry

Venezuela has been closed.

This attempt at opposition

Chavez also failed.

In support, the Cubans sent

ten thousand doctors and drug free ...

to open clinics

for the poor.

In an exchange made

between Chavez and Fidel Castro ...

he offered cheap oil

Cuba in exchange for physicians.

Some of these people,

says that medical ...

''I never saw a doctor.''

Chavez to stop talking

it did for reducing poverty. . .

which was much smaller

by leaders before him.

One of my colleagues

State Department says. . .

Chavez loves both the poor

that created millions of new poor.

After the government took

control of the oil industry ...

the economy doubled in size

within six years.

Poverty has decreased R half ...

and extreme poverty,

in more than 70%.

Here are grown all.

Sorghum, sunflower, corn, beans.

I want to test the model

community property here.

For example, a district like this

with a group of families.

"The owner" is perhaps 100 families,

And this group of families owns

this whole area, 200 hectares.

This farm belongs

Condo community.

Chavez has a very poor record

in terms of human rights.

The Bush administration

compared him to Hitler.

Human rights have become

new expression of struggle ...

very similar to what was

freedom in the Soviet era.

But here too there

double political standards.

Comparatively, our neighbor

and closest ally in the region ...

Colombia has a record

worse human rights.

But, as President Uribe

is seen as Washington's friend ...

and its war against drug trafficking ...

gain a pass in the media

Chavez does not have that right.

Chavez has made a point

to appear in public ...

with tyrants

that Washington loves to hate.

We are able to eliminate it.

And I believe the time has come

to exercise that capacity.

We do not need another war

$ 200 billion. . .

to get rid

a strong dictator.

It seems to me that in the few days

I spent with you ...

you develop protection

it.

But, in principle, is

he was shocked.

It affected me personally, yes.

It was painful for me.

It pained me to see the lies

and disrespect to the people.

But then I realized

that is a game e. . .

no matter what I do. . .

I can dress as a priest,

with a fine hat on his head. . .

'll keep calling me

a tyrant. The people know the truth.

I understand the complicated approach

Chavez.

After the coup, began to seem

a little more like a war.

George W. Bush. . .

you are a donkey, Mr. Bush.

Yesterday the devil came here.

And this place still smells like sulfur.

This is your desk,

is where he works.

This is one of my posts

Preferred to work.

I've never seen so much energy. Never.

He said he intended to return here,

last night, for work.

Yes, I worked last night.

See.

What time was sleep yesterday?

Then, by three in the morning.

Three-thirty.

Worked-up the two?

-Worked, li.

I am obliged to study hard.

I know the team.

It's for fun or pleasure?

All this is a pleasure.

And went to bed reading this book?

That help you have

is boring.

Who does not walk with us

Do not walk with me

The first thing to know

Chavez is on ...

he was born in a shack

literally, and grew up in poverty.

And it affected

his vision of Venezuela. . .

and opened his ambition

of life to transform the country.

I was born a hundred yards

there ahead.

Welcome to our neighborhood.

Hello, my dear.

How are you, my life?

Look, that girl!

Venezuela has spent 50 years

without a project. . .

but now we have one.

Who is that?

-Ali? My grandmother.

This is the grandmother.

An old picture we recover

of an identity card.

At what age did she die?

She was born 70 years before.

Result, of course. . .

so much work.

That was where I was born. In a house

palm leaves.

And this is the house where I grew up.

As it was, at age 14?

He was thin. He was very fond

playing baseball.

-Baseball?

-Is.

What position?

He played as a pitcher.

And I was at first base.

It's always hard to win.

And he just likes to win.

Because he is trying very

to win.

We planted fruit trees

here. Tamarind, orange.

There was a coffee

and a hornet's nest here.

My grandmother told me to spoon

coffee. You see? I said!

Think back to Hugo.

His grandmother is there, behind you.

His grandmother comes to the door.

Can not do that.

I'll cry.

Action!

Oh, no! Broke!

I'll have to pay!

I'll have to pay!

Who is this bike?

How's it going, girls?

What are you studying?

Engineering?

She is studying engineering.

Hello, Hugo!

"How many cows do you have?

Ten-giving milk.

Ten, giving milk.

As each cow produces per day?

Four liters each.

Four liters each.

You must increase this production.

The property is yours

and his family.

-Studied until years?

Sixth-grade.

Sixth grade? You must go back to school.

You must seek Ribas mission.

When I came to power,

we had to import maize.

This is no longer necessary.

We broke records this year.

Now, we are building

processing plants.

It is here that we are building

Iranian atomic bomb.

The pump of corn.

The pump of corn.

We process our own corn

in our own plant.

We produce flour.

In this case, with the support of Iran.

And sell it very cheap

the poor, the people.

Two hundred years ago,

started a revolution.

Bolivar started ...

releasing all these people

the Spanish empire.

Thus began the dream

of a republic.

Free and sovereign.

But then came

the American empire. . .

Empire and English.

And split it into pieces.

Our history is terrible.

This continent want to be. . .

We want to be ourselves.

Oliver, I want to show you something.

See that building?

It is an old barracks.

I was there the day

the military rebellion.

On February 4, 1992.

Ali was the headquarters

the rebellion.

Our military rebels

Caracas took the palace.

I could have died there.

Some of my men died.

I am strongly connected

queles who died that day.

Those who died here.

In these windows, there is still

bullet holes that day.

The men who died,

I carry with me.

And this is part

my commitment.

As a former soldier,

I understand you.

The victories of Chavez in Venezuela

began to transform ...

their own country on offer

of hope to others.

Powerful social forces

gathered in the south ...

across national borders.

It seemed that the dream of Simon

Bolivar had begun to realize.

The old oligarchies,

privileged light-skinned ...

prepare to defend

his condition with his strength.

And the new social movements,

indigenous, darker-skinned ...

and, above all, poor.

Chavez advanced today

over a left ...

and proclaims that socialism

is the only way forward ...

attracting other states

South Americans to join ...

Condo Bolivarian revolution.

Gonna come?

Legalizing cocaine.

This is one of the main items

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Mark Weisbrot

Mark Alan Weisbrot is an American economist and columnist. He is co-director with Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. Weisbrot is President of Just Foreign Policy, a non-governmental organization dedicated to reforming United States foreign policy. more…

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