" 'The War On Democracy',2007, was John Pilger's first for cinema.

It explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.

Using archive footage sourced by Michael Moore's archivist Carl Deal, the film shows how serial US intervention, overt and covert, has toppled a series of legitimate governments in the Latin American region since the 1950s. The democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende, for example, was ousted by a US backed coup in 1973 and replaced by the military dictatorship of General Pinochet. Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador have all been invaded by the United States."

johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy

another Aussie writer in London, Guy Rundle nails the woeful reporting on Chavez.

Hugo Chavez's Critics Are Blind

Hugo Chavez's political program vastly improved the lives of Venezuela's poor. His critics refuse to see poverty - even in their own countries. Guy Rundle on the moral decay of right-wing politics in the West.

hedda wrote:

Hugo Chavez's political program vastly improved the lives of Venezuela's poor

Certainly true. But c3,500 people are murdered on the streets of Caracas every year.

Which is better?

To be fed, or dead?

Ben 9 wrote:
hedda wrote:

Hugo Chavez's political program vastly improved the lives of Venezuela's poor

Certainly true. But c3,500 people are murdered on the streets of Caracas every year.

Which is better?

To be fed, or dead?





ask the Iraqis.