Description: Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington
in Americas manipulation of Latin American politics during the last
50 years leading up to the struggle by ordinary people to free
themselves from poverty and racism. Since the mid 19th Century Latin
America has been the backyard of the US, a collection of mostly
vassal states whose compliant and often brutal regimes have
reinforced the invisibility of their majority peoples. The film
reveals similar CIA policies to be continuing in Iraq, Iran and
Lebanon. The rise of Venezuelas Hugo Chavez despite ongoing
Washington backed efforts to unseat him in spite of his overwhelming
mass popularity, is democratic in a way that we have forgotten or
abandoned in the west. True Democracy being a solid 80% voter
turnout in support of Chavez in over 6 elections. Written by David
Blake