[Peace-discuss] Stone's "Border" Shows Fall of South America's Berlin Wall

[Robert Naiman]

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

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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naiman at justforeignpolicy.org

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