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Guerra alla democrazia (di John Pilger)

This documentary film about the power of the empire and that of the people.

E 'was shot in Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States. It tells the story through the voices of characters who live it, the "garden in the back" of America, the derogatory term given to all of Latin America.
describes the struggle of indigenous peoples first to Spain, then against European immigrants who reinforced the old elite. The shooting has been concentrating on the barrios, where he lives the "invisible people" of the continent, in shanties hell that defy gravity.

tells, above all, a very positive story: that of the rise of social movements that brought to power governments promising to stand against those who control national wealth and against the imperial master. Venezuela has opened the door, and a focal point of the film is a rare face-to-face interview with President Hugo Chavez, whose growing political awareness, and whose sense of history (and humor) are obvious. The film investigates the 2002 coup against Chavez and places it in a contemporary context.

also describes the difference between Venezuela and Cuba, and the change in the economic and political power since Chavez was elected for the first time.



John Pilger is a journalist and award-winning author of books and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in Australia, his homeland before moving to London in the 60s. He started as a reporter and foreign correspondent from the front line, from the war in Vietnam in 1967. It 's a fierce critic of foreign entanglements, economic and military affairs of Western governments.

"for Western journalists," says Pilger, "is too easy to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to 'our interests' and following the agendas of governments decree that those who are good and bad tyrants, those worthy and unworthy victims and present 'our' policies as always benign when the opposite is usually true. It 'a journalist's work, first, look in the mirror of their society. "

Pilger also believes that a journalist should be the guardian of public memory and often quotes Milan Kundera," The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. "

translation and subtitling of Andy ( NoOneWorldGovernment )