La minaccia . The Threat
Verzio FF Submission The film records a journey across Venezuela, the country that gave rise to the “red wave” in Latin America. Does Venezuela represent the dream of a new socialist society or is it just another distortion of populism and dictatorship? A trip with President Chavez over the largest...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Suttvuess
2008
Italy |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:fd6cab7d-7784-4eca-9f3d-27b623aa87ff |
| Summary: | Verzio FF Submission
The film records a journey across Venezuela, the country that gave rise to the “red wave” in Latin America. Does Venezuela represent the dream of a new socialist society or is it just another distortion of populism and dictatorship? A trip with President Chavez over the largest oil reserve in the world, situated beneath the Orinoco river, becomes the occasion to enter into the lives of Venezuelans, nine years after the beginning of the Bolivarian revolution. The government missions to fight illiteracy and hunger, the creation of a public health care system and the development of an economy based on cooperative work are some of the achievements which characterize the Chavez era. Against them stand the country’s 60 violent deaths a week and its collapsing hospitals, the closure of the most popular television channel, the old European immigrants in flight, the opposition black list and the ubiquitous government propaganda. |
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| Published: | 2008 |