On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world-historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a U.S.-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Venezuela collapsed. The failure of the Bush Administration's effort to overthrow President Chavez was world-historical for South America because it sent a powerful new signal about the limits of the ability of the United States to thwart popular democracy in the region. Following the reversal of the U.S.-backed coup, a succession of Presidents were elected across South America promising to reverse the disastrous economic policies promoted by Washington in the region through the International Monetary Fund for the previous twenty years, and to promote instead the economic interests of the majority. The story of this dramatic transformation has been largely untold in the United States, in part because the freedom narrative of South America is significantly a story of freedom from U.S.-dominated institutions.
But on Friday, Oliver Stone's new documentary South of the Border opens in New York. Because it's an Oliver Stone movie, and because it's being commercially distributed, there's a strong possibility that many Americans who are not connected to the alternative press could have the opportunity to see and hear this story for the first time. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/stones-border-shows-fall_b_622643.html http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/23/131153/308 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/626 -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
