The War On Democracy

[Judi Lynn]

The War On Democracy

http://vimeo.com/16724719

'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.

John Pilger interviews several ex-CIA agents who took part in secret campaigns against democratic countries in the region. He investigates the School of the Americas in the US state of Georgia, where Pinochet’s torture squads were trained along with tyrants and death squad leaders in Haiti, El Salvador, Brazil and Argentina.

The film unearths the real story behind the attempted overthrow of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez in 2002 and how the people of the barrios of Caracas rose up to force his return to power.

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[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[SamKnause]

2. Hugo Chavez

Wonderful video.

Thanks for posting Judi Lynn.

The passing of Hugo Chavez has touched me like no other politician.

I wish I could have met him in person.

P.S. I have watched every video posted on YouTube about Hugo Chavez.

His interviews were always amazing.

[Flatulo]

3. The US has a shameful record in

this region. For too many years in too many places, we let our abject terror of any socialist reforms dictate our interventionist foreign policy. Sadly, this continues even to this day.

People everywhere have an absolute right to self-determine the type of society they wish to build, and it's none of our business.

[ocpagu]

4. Wonderful film!

So glad you posted it here. This is something everyone should see!

Impressive to see the cynical remarks by the former CIA agent, that arrogant pile of shit saying "get used to it, that's what we are going to do whenever our interests are at risk".

So glad Latin America is ready to prove these bunch of thugs how wrong they are. They are the ones who must "get used" to it. And it's just the start.

Thank you so much, Judi.