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I’ve been given the U.S. exclusive look at the trailer for Oliver Stone’s new documentary South of the Border which is sharply critical of the U.S. media’s coverage of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and 6 other Latin American leaders. Stone will personally premiere the film at the Venice Film Festival this Monday:
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While he was in Venezuela, Stone took time to praise the murderous FARC terrorists supported by Chavez as “heroic.” I can tell you as someone who is married to a Colombian, and been there many times, the Colombian people hate this filth that have torn apart their country for 40 years. Stone is a scumbag.
In response to your comment, it has only been the “American Influence” and “War Drug” that has kept beautiful Colombia torn apart,nothing else. As you know, foreign influence does not make a country but destroys it in many ways. Assuming you are educated on the topic, you know the Colombian situation is one of neo-capitalism and neo-imperialism.
I wonder why people like Oliver Stone and Sean Penn never actually MOVE (or, more importantly, their money) to Venezuela? Could it be that it’s much, much easier to be pro socialist when you don’t actually live under a socialist tyrannical government?
Chavez’s attacks on the press in his country are inexcusable. He’s trying to shut down any and all opposing voices and has removed term limits on the Presidency in his country. That is NOT freedom or Democracy. It’s a dictatorship.
Chavez’s attacks on the press in his country are inexcusable. He’s trying to shut down any and all opposing voices and has removed term limits on the Presidency in his country…
Aside from the facts that (A) the people VOTED on term limits via referendum; he didn’t impose them, and (B) we didn’t have term limits until after FDR in THIS country, so what kind of indictment is that…
Go watch the documentary linked just above, the come back, and you might have some idea of why he’s wary of the “media” in his country.
I think this proves Stone has taken his name to heart, He is obviously “stoned”.
I’m glad that Oliver Stone is standing for against the lies of the US establishment, that I see reflected on many ill informed posts. I can’t wait to see it. Long Live Hugo Chavez!
Dear Andrew,
Contextualize this!
Libs and the wacko minions… is there really enough stupid people who believe any of this…madness simply madness.
This is a benchside view of Oliver Stone, from his private booth in the stadium.
The truth lies in the eye of the beholder. I’ve there as well as the countries that fell down from the comunist block, and the socialist/comunist receipe does not work. the formula is simple, trade (money) is needed to suport a social group, and this countries have only oil and drugs to offer, that is how this goverments are supporting this nonsense. Once the source is finished it will be only pain left.
All this years, Chavez and company have not really helped their people. Perhaps if they insted invest on hypereducating the new generations as well as strengtening the infrastructure.
Since this generation is already lost, the question is what will happen with the incoming one if they are forced to keep the same understimulated level?
This video was the joke of the day. Oliver Stone is completely blind. I am from South America and Hugo Chavez is an embarrassment for us. He can talk (nonsense, by the way) and talk about democracy, but all his acts demonstrate his hunger for power. He is against USA’s interventionism, but he has been a nosy president who wants to get involved in all other countries’ issues and dictate his will.
His popularity is so low, and by contrast, his “enemies” (like the Colombian President Dr. Alvaro Uribe Velez) have the highest acceptance in their countries.
The guy has no ethics and I should stop talking about him, because it makes me SICK.
Oliver Stone should take a look at this webpage: http://www.nomaschavez.org/
Sorry to disspoint but Chavez popularity is anythign but “LOW.” In any case, he has proven despite his obvious flaws to have done more for Venezuela than the previous administration.
And you don’t think this country (USA) closes radio stations?? You naive fool. But at least for Venezuela it is for legal and honorable reasons (licenses expire, illegal slander) rather than just pure political and money reasons in the US. I mean how fair and democratic is it that there is a monopoly of our airwaves here in the US by the Clear Channel corporation (which now goes by a different name) by virtue of our airwaves being sold off under Clinton?? How fair and democratic is it that only a handlful of media corporations like CBS and Disney own most of the radio, tv, and print news media in the US??
Exactly!
I lived in Cuba and in Venezuela. I saw how two great countries went into the sewer of communism. Step by step liberties were taken away just as ours are being taken away by an egomaniac as Obama and those who finance him secretly. I saw families despair when their husbands or sons disappeared after publicly criticizing the “Leader”.
Now here, the left is attacking freedom in the media and clamping down of all forms of communication under the pretext of national security. With the help of the pseudo-intellects in the media, propaganda becomes the truth of the ignorant.
God help us.
Charles
I think Obama is “demonized” by the radical right! I am in no way a “fan of Obama” because I have voted for the LDS Senator, who was a republican, nevertheless I do not feel that he is connected to “any secret society” and believe me I have done “lots of research” on the matter, it is mostly lots of little donations that have “made Obama president” and that is “legitimate and moral”!
Therefore while indeed there are “wicked conspiracies” in the world and I have mentioned the “masonic conspiracy” for one, I do not believe nor have I any evidence to connect the currrent president to any of these, even though I have digged through all the dirt I could find, and unless you can “prove to me” that he has “sponsors” besides Retzko that gave him a “special deal” on his house, I cannot be “persuaded otherwise”!
Also as far as “Hugo Chavez” is concerned he is “still quite popular” among the poor people of his nation because he “officially champions their cause” and while I agree he does indeed “reduce freedom” for the rich class of working oppressors in Venezuela, he may actually increase freedom for some poor by allowing them to “survive for another day”, and in that regard he is “doing what he ought to do” and no one can tell me that somehow it is the “christian and honest thing” to “protect the wicked rich” while oppressing the honest or even the evil poor who desire to vote themselves the riches of others instead of going to “nonexistent jobs” that were “destroyed by the greed of the evil rich” which exist in all nations under GOD, not saying that “rich people do not exist” that are “honest in heart” only that they are “most likely a small minority” among those who have obtained the “wealth of this world”!
Most of the people who have become wealthy in this world, HAVE DONE SO ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR, AND HAVE THEN “BLAMED THE POOR” FOR BEING SLOTHFUL, AFTER THEY HAVE TAKEN THEIR LAND BY FORCE, FORCED FROM THEIR PROPERTY WITH “MILITARY POWER” AND DEPRIVED THEM FORCEFULLY OF THEIR RIGHTS TO WORK, AND THEIR RIGHTS TO OWN LAND AND THEN GET THIS:
HAVE MURDERED THEM IF THEY ISSUED SO MUCH AS A PROTEST ABOUT THE ILLEGAL PROCEEDINGS OF RICH THUGS WHO CLAIM THEY CAN DO NO WRONG,AND I NOW INDICT THE “ANCIENT SCOTTISH RITE” AS THE CHIEF TRESPASSER OF UNIVERSAL LAW IN THAT REGARD!
If karma works and the american right of free speech is used. Then hopefully a lot of tomatoes will be thrown at the premier. This is Oliver Stone trying to get his name out in the public by creating a controversy. You know what they say; “any publicity is good publicity”. I hope, no I know he isn’t going to make a dime. He is only going to make $9.00, and that will come from Jane Fonda.
hmmm… tomatoes? what a great idea you have given me!
Viva Hugo Chavez!! Viva la Revolucion Cubana!! Viva la libertad, igualdad y fraternidad!! All of you are saying that Oliver does not know shit about latin america but the true is that all of you are a bunch of retards!! You dont know the reality of these countries!! You dont even know where is the US in a worldmap!!
I’ll give you an example of how the US..er.. Venezuelan media illegally slandered about Chavez. My friend was present at a ceremony where Chavez presented someone with a rose. Within 24 hours, one of the main tv stations had used footage of that exact ceremony to photoshop a picture of a gun to replace the rose!! Also during the coup vs Chavez when there were daily demonstrations by thousands if not millions of Venezuelans, the stations pieced footage together to make it look like the anti-coup pro-Chavez supporters were firing on a crowd of anti-Chavez people when the raw footage showed that that was NOT the case at all! I think that may have been in “The Revolution will not be Televised” movie. By the way, the only “hispanics” on here opposing Chavez are white Venezuelans who was mad that they couldn’t make big bucks anymore by helping the US oil and other corporations steal resources out of their country anymore. These people are sellouts and traitors!! Or, giving them the benefit of the doubt, they are middleclass people who believed the US=funded media lies. Either way, they do NOT represent the opinions of the majority of Venezuelans who have fairly elected and reelected (even with Jimmy Carter and other outside bodies monitoring) their president.
Oh, Jimmy Carter is the bellwether of democracy? The same Jimmy Carter who thinks we should all be friends with Hamas and Hezbollah as they work to rid the world of the Zionist scourge? I wonder if it was Jimmy Carter who gave Chavez all those tips on demonizing Jews and inciting anti-Semitic violence.
And as for stealing resources, I guess it’s bad when American companies steal for themselves, but it’s okay when Chavez’s bureaucratic cronies and yes men do it? The point will be moot soon, though, as PDVSA is now run by Chavez’s sycophants, not people who know how to run an oil company. Between failing to maintain their infrastructure and alienating foreign producers who can do the exploration and development of oil fields, the Chavistas have so mismanaged their oil business that there won’t be much to steal in a few years, and under Chavez, their economy can’t rely on anything else now.
I think Andrew is right on. I’m no fan of Chávez, but the talking heads on U.S. TV declaring him to be more dangerous than bin Laden, I think is ludicrous and itself dangerous. I’d be interested to see the film because I think Stone is illustrating a larger interesting trend in the region, as Kirschner elaborates. To fixate on one country’s president (and pretend that the U.S.’s influence and involvement in the region has been ever-benevolent) is to miss the point completely.
P.S. Power corrupts
You write a post demonizing the U.S. media’s portrayal of Hugo Chavez, then you end with “P.S. Power corrupts”?
You would do well to remember the whole phrase from Lord Acton, especially in context of Hugo Chavez’s unchecked, totalitatiran power: Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I do not like the fact that “censorship exists” anywhere, there are libels being printed, which sometimes forces a government to “crack down” on their opposition, nevertheless the “liberty to print libel” is such a “valuable commodity” that even though the lies that are printed are pretty damaging it is “often even more damaging to the country” to destroy libelous presses and that was the “reason for the murder of two prophets” in the 19th century, PEOPLE WILL NOT ALWAYS AGREE, that it is libel what is printed and what may seem like lies to some, may be “gospel truth” for others, therefore the rule is harsh and unhappy:
THOSE IN POWER ALWAYS CLAIM TO TELL THE TRUTH, while those who challenge those in power, are often considered liars, rebels and communist and fascist revolutionaries until they have seized power after which a “role reversal takes place”!
Bal harbour socialist.
The only possible question here is how much did Oliver get paid. There’s no way that someone with his level of education would buy Chavez as a good man.
Why these guys that get all the benefits of capitalism and support socialist ideas dont get a reality check ? if Stone likes Chavez so much then he should live there or in China, or Cuba .
As a latin american, we know that Chavez is full of it and that his ideas are by far the worst of any other leader in history of south america, just because Chavez didnt like Bush doesnt make him a hero. Stone should stop doing these “dcoumentaries”
What does stone know about Chavez ? nothing zero , NADA ! he knows nothing about the Cuban revolution, or latin american history. It makes me really mad that he divulges missinformation promoting a dictator like Chavez ! yeah DICTATOR Mr Stone: you DONT have a history degree, you have a smoke-pot and pass the class degree ! so stop making money by making these movies promoting suffering of the people who gets affected by your idols like Chavez, real people are hungry and their rights have been denied while you claim to be some social activist, you SUCK !
So many of you comment about Chavez based on what you have seen broadcast to you by agenda driven media (is there another kind?). So many of you get your news from Fox or other popular news outlets that reports whatever it is the “company line” tells them to report. There is and always has been a filtered, biased, approach to presenting the news in which those in power manipulate anything they can to further their own cause. Venezuela is long noted for their rich production in oil, and in any situation in which wealth is redistributed, powerful enemies are made. In this case those powerful enemies controlled the media outlets. Chavez has only recently began to use censorship, despite allowing the opposition to broadcast slander against the landslide elected government. ITS A MINORITY THAT OPPOSES CHAVEZ. A minority with very big mouths; they’re afraid of losing their money, and we all know what people do when they’re afraid of losing money.
Since the “agenda driven media” is so biased, it’s preferable to get one’s information from an authoritarian leader’s propaganda machine like you have?
People people go easy on Mr. Stone.He just trying to portray perspectives and ideas from the “leaders of the South”-very stereotyical.It is unfortunate we still have a racist nature, go figure. I understand “we” as humans hold grudges to those who oppress,alienate, and marginalized our “freedoms.” However, reality proves that we must accept our differences and work together to move forward,and to progress.Moreover, we can only make idiotic and silly assumptions of other people perspectives until we self-educated ourselves about the realities of the past,present,and future. Furthermore, I agree 100% with “Andrews” comment-right on buddy! Dont spew bile about what you do not know well or at all unless G.W. Bush you want to become!lol peace…
I cannot believe the stupidity I’m hearing here, this is the exact reason this documentary should be made.
So you people honestly believe the US media when they talk about Chavez being as bad as “Al Qaida”, calling “Venezuela a haven for terrorists”, “danger in the regon”, to name but a few.
And “nationalizing every major industry” is what being a socialist is all about, as example, since the power-, tranportation- and many more company’s have been privatised by mostly American company’s in my country Holland, things have gotten real ugly.
And since when does how much money you have has to do with anything?
Don’t you understand that this is just another step in what they did many times before?
OIL AND MONEY, people, where does the US go when Bagdad is empty and “rebuild” by American contracters, “fight the terrorist Chavez?”
These leaders over there are uniting South America, and saying no to the only dictator in this world, the U.S.A., the world has had enough of US violence.
So maybe Chavez does some things that are not exactly wise to do but the bridges made to terrorists or Castro is redicilous, come on!
I can understand the Americans being clueless, what else is knew, they’re still amazed when they travel abroad and find out no one likes the US that much anymore, must be a shock to find out the media in the rest of the world is a liiiiiiiittle different from the crap you’re being fed at home.
But A Hispanic, you should be freaking ashamed of yourself.
Congratulations, Jerom, on making the only intelligent comment up here. I am amazed at how ignorant these people are. I guess maybe it’s just that everyone posting here are 13-year-old film geeks without much knowledge of economics and politics.
So, to everyone else: yes, you are ignorant. That’s not just a word used to insult people; it means you don’t know very much. You can begin to rectify this situation by reading some authors who have a lot of knowledge on these things you know very little about. I would begin with Noam Chomsky, who is pretty much universally acknowledged as one of the foremost experts on international relations. Also, Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States is another really important book. From there, keep reading. The best way to stay stupid is to close your mind.
Unbelievable the comments on here. It’s a trailer, #1. Watch that damn film and then give your POV on the subject matter. Right wingers will attack anything without even understanding it. It’s free speech, #2. All these nutball lunatic opinions out there are under the exact same protection Stone is under. Read your history books, #3. No gov’t is without blood on their hands. That’s the politics of power, but if you think the U.S. is squeaky clean and hasn’t forcefully placed puppet regimes all over central and south America, you don’t know squat about 20th Century history in the region. I for one, can’t wait to see this documentary.
“Right wingers will attack anything without even understanding it.”
Well said. Not understanding things is an integral part of the Right wing. To be a right winger, you either have lots of money and are manipulating people, or you are poor and being manipulated. Otherwise, you’d be a liberal.
Wow. I should be ashamed of myself. Incredibly naive.
Yeah I should respect the dictators that stole my families’ homes and businesses in Cuba and forced them into exile.
My grandfather worked as a beer distributor, the government took everything from him, and he came to the US and had to start from the bottom as a lawnmower man (no offense to lawnmowers everywhere). Why should I respect the commie thugs who took his livelyhood?
It’s so easy to be a loony lefty when you live in the USA. Would love to see you ignorant fools survive if you had to live with a food ration card like the poor souls in Cuba.
Think about how great it is to be a lefty when you’re lounging by the pool this weekend. Idiots.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_anti_chavez_protests
Hugo Chavez is anti-semitic. He’s been bashing Jews and Israel all week while he dances with Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Oliver Stone is a turd of the maximum degree. I’m sure Oliver would love Hitler and Stalin too….pig.