This 76 min documentary examines the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the worldwide movement against capitalist globalisation.

The film shows the evolution of the popular movement in Venezuela from the Caracazo riots in 1989 to the massive actions that brought revolutionary president Hugo Chavez back to power, 48 hours after a U.S. led military coup in 2002.

The main theme is how the Bolivarian Revolution, thanks to its incredible grassroots and networking power, is a Revolution that transcends the national frontiers of Venezuela and contributes with concrete alternatives to the fight against neoliberal capitalism.

By Marcelo Andrade Arreaza

& the Calle y Media collective

www.calleymedia.org marcelo@calleymedia.org

Duration 76 min
Spanish (English subtitles)

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Film by Elisabetta Andreoli, Gabriele Muzio and Max Pugh

The Bolivian people, robbed of their resources, maintain their dignity and fight back. In October 2003, an extraordinary popular uprising challenged the US Empire and kicked out President Sanchez de Lozada, El Gringo, a representative of US administration and transnationals interests.

People are calling for new forms of representation and organisation that question formal democracy and political parties and the ‘Gas War’ is the latest episode in a succession of fierce and successful fights against the organised theft of national resources. February 2003, a mutiny by the police against the imposition of income taxation on the destitute to fulfil IMF demands provoked the withdrawal of tax measures. Throughout 2002, peasants revolt against the US-imposed ‘Coca War’, the coca-eradication plan that would destroy the only possible source of survival for thousands of poor peasants. In 2001, the people of Cochabamba fought successfully the ‘Water War’ against a most outrageous form of privatisation of water and forced the government to cancel the agreement with Bethell, a US-based company.

“What the Bolivian people did in October 2003 is worth more then 100 Social Forum” Evo Morales

The war against the sell-off of Bolivia’s natural resources to transnational corporations goes on and represents the most overt and courageous attack on neo-liberal doctrine.

62 minutes

File size: 676 Meg

November 2003

Spanish with English subtitles

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