The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Chavez, The Coup

[Coyotl]

A 2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. A television crew from Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ happened to be recording a documentary about Chávez during the events of April 11, 2002. Shifting focus, they followed the events as they occurred. During their filming, the crew recorded images of the events that they say contradict explanations given by Chávez's opposition, the private media, the US State Department, and then White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. The documentary says that the coup was the result of a conspiracy between various old guard and anti-Chávez factions within Venezuela and the United States.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised_%28documentary%29

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[delrem]

1. Thanks for posting this. It tells a story that *ought* not be forgotten, or misunderstood.

I've watched this documentary before, as no doubt all those who actually care about events in Latin America have.

The images, the scenes, the spirit - and most central of all, the people celebrating Chavez' victory - have a tremendously forceful impact, and they remind and re-impress on me an awareness of just why the Koch Bros. contingent absolutely *hates* not just Chavez, but everything he stands for and everyone who supports him.

Those scenes are the antithesis of US middle class apathy, of neoliberal/neoconservative (I've never figured how they differ, except in the names of the respective "institutes" and figureheads, except in maybe timeline or temporary focus) political theater. That revolutionary red the people were wearing, their jubilation in wearing it.... there is no translation of that into NA politics, even that of the Occupy movement.

But the antithesis to that? The right-wing reaction to that? That translates very well indeed. For example, the tea-partyesque sloganeering and slandering of Pres. Obama as a Kenyan Marxist Islamist Infiltrating Traitor... is the exact mirror of the Koch/big-oil/MIC led anti-Bolivarian response to Chavez, and now to Chavez's successor Maduro. The lies are now way thick, the Koch/big-oil/MIC contingent is literally drooling, naked, hoping for another coup attempt. Those SOBs are *so* easy for the Koch/big-oil/MIC machine to arouse.

[zeemike]

2. Yep the past is prologue.

And it is playing out now just as it did on April 11 then...and with the same response from our right wingers here in this country...Maduro is evil, Maduro is a dictator, Maduro must resign.

And I suspect the violence was created just like it was then and the media spinning it the same way...it is Maduro's fault, just as they did with Chavez.

[Coyotl]

3. Bolivarian opposition is a well-funded industry.

[deutsey]

4. Thanks for posting

I've only seen clips of this before and have wanted to see the whole thing.

[blkmusclmachine]

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[Theyletmeeatcake2]

6. Hmmmmm,where are the anti VZ bother boys ?????

Hyperventilating over the latest right wing media releases.....with tissues at the ready I'm sure!!!

[MrMickeysMom]

7. LEARN BY HISTORY...

… Also, learn that it is NOT to see how the CIA, in IT'S HISTORY, has been instrumental over governments that decide to nationalize things such as national resources (e.g. "blood for oil"… Saddam Hussein did not drive planes into the WTC, etc).

Eternal vigilance and understanding true history will see us through the dark night to the daylight.

[Coyotl]

8. People fall for the deception even though it is a second try at a coup.

It seems some have learned nothing.