Cheap Chavez: Inside the Coup (a.k.a. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised") (DVD) (Donnacha O'Briain, Kim Bartley (II)) Price

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Outstanding journalism - all in the West should watch this
All people in the US and in my country the UK and all over the western world should watch this essential film.I have just been to a showing of the film and logged on to amazonUK to order it, but only found this forthcoming release here at amazon.com.This film displays the utter depravity of the kind of puppets that western imperialism is prepared to support to subvert popular progressive governments in the developing world,in this case the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela of Hugo Chavez.The lying of the oligarchy-owned media is exposed here like in no other film I have seen:We are shown the scene in the Presidential Palace in Caracas just after the coup plotters have been ousted,and their friends in the corporate media are still telling people that Carmona is still in power and totally in control! We also listen to someone posing as the Venezuelan Attorney General ,when this post had been abolished by the coup plotters themselves! To all Brits reading this:recall how leading new Labourite Dennis Macshane actually welcomed this fascist coup. <
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>Now let us all recall how we were told that we invaded Yugoslavia,Afghanistan and Iraq to bring democracy,freedom and sun-tan lotion to the eternally grateful people of these countries...

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Simply One of the Best Documentaries Ever Made
This remarkable piece of filmmaking provides viewers with the rare opportunity of viewing a U.S.-backed political coup from an insider's perspective. The filmmakers were actually holed up in the Venezualan presidential palace as the coup drama unfolded. Amazing stuff. The film does a particularly thorough job of exposing the cynical, manipulative lies of the coup plotters - upper class Venezualans allied with high ranking military leaders (and the American CIA). In the end, the Venezualan people emerge as the true heroes of this drama - risking everything to demand democracy. An immensely inspiring film that every American should see - both North and South.

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This excellent documentary film had been withdrawn from commercial distribution indefinitely. Please check out the British Venezuela Solidarity Campaign for information on availability of this film. <
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>There is a lot of nit-picky criticism from Chavez opponents pointing out that that some interviews and scenes in the "before the coup" part of the film were actually interviews or street scenes filmed after coup - the critics apparently unaware that all movies are made this way! Nonetheless there has been no credible evidence that the events and viewpoints depicted in the film are not substantially correct. <
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>Considering the above, one one can't help but to think that there is something more sinister behind the ban on commercial sales of this film. Amnesty International did confirm that it withdrew this film from their 2003 Vancouver film festival due to threats of violence, not due to claims of innacurate content. At risk of digressing, this was awful cowardice on the part of Amnesty International - especially in light of the their orgainzations stated mission.