February 21, 2006

Kim Bartley & Donnacha O Briain, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003). 74 minutes.

What happens when a popular anti-free-market leader takes power in the fourth largest oil producing nation? The powers that be, from the media to the US State Department, set in motion concerted plans for his overthrow. This award winning documentary pieces together at the scene footage of the ousting and return to power of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April, 2002. A fine case study in the uses of media manipulation among other things.