| Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's 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 Venezuela's 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. "The War on Democracy" es un premiado e ilustrativo repaso a la política de injerencias que Estados Unidos ha llevado a cabo sobre América Latina desde 1945. Bajo el velo de promover la democracia, de cuidar de su seguridad nacional, se esconde el verdadero sentido de su labor: apoyarse en la élites de estados más débiles para asegurarse la posesión de sus recursos naturales. John Pilger realiza entrevistas exclusivas con oficiales estadounidenses del gobierno, incluyendo agentes que revelan por primera vez cómo la CIA ha desplegado y está desplegando su guerra particular en Latino América. Pilger argumenta que la verdadera democracia popular se ... |
