Oliver Stone offers his take on Hugo Chavez By MICK LASALLE FILM WRITER July 23, 2010, 4:12PM Oliver Stone might not be the ideal reporter to send on a truth-seeking mission to South America, but if nobody else wants to do it, we have to take what we can get. In South of the Border, Stone travels [...]

Oliver Stone’s Latin Film Published: July 24, 2010 To the Editor: “Oliver Stone’s Latin America” (Arts pages, June 26) tries to discredit our film, “South of the Border,” by raising questions about its accuracy. On our Web site, www.Southoftheborderdoc.com, we deal with each of the points that your article raises: geography, oil imports, the 2002 coup [...]

Oliver Stone nails Latin America’s troubled relationship with the USA Political interference and studio nervousness have undermined so many worthy films on the subject, it’s a wonder that South Of The Border got made, let alone seen in the USA.. The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010 by John Patterson Despite my many differences with Oliver Stone [...]

Far Left and Liking It Oliver Stone Goes South of the Border for Hugo Chavez Friday, July 23, 2010 by MATT KETTMANN Last February, hundreds gathered in the Lobero Theatre during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to dive into Oliver Stone’s film South of the Border, the director’s in-your-face whirlwind documentary about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the rise [...]

With the Launch of the DVD on June 22nd, the FUEL team of Energy Experts Began a National Dialogue on Solutions for the Oil Spill
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LOS ANGELES, CA (July 1, 2010) – To coincide with the two month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that triggered the worst environmental disaster in American history and the June 22nd DVD release of the Sundance Award Winning documentary, FUEL, New Orleans native, filmmaker and alternative fuels activist, Josh Tickell and his producing partner and wife Rebecca Harrell Tickell kicked off a campaign …

Oliver Stone’s South of the Border by Lynne Bronstein Jul. 9, 2010, 3:15:00 pm Outside Laemmle’s Monica Theatre on the evening of July 2, the lineup of ticket buyers jostled for sidewalk space with cheering fans greeting Oliver Stone as he arrived to talk about his new film South of the Border. There were also [...]

Oliver Stone Tells the Real Story of the Leftist Latin American Leaders Transforming the Continent Stone’s new film traces the rise of Chávez, Lula, Evo, and others who see participatory democracy and cooperation between Latin American countries as the future. By Daniela Perdomo July 12, 2010 After decades of military dictatorships and IMF puppetry in [...]

Watch the interview from June 27th here.

When Naomi met Chávez By Naomi Campbell To mark the release of Oliver Stone’s documentary South Of The Border – featuring candid interviews with Hugo Chávez – we are publishing Naomi Campbell’s Q&A with the Venezuelan leader for GQ. The two discussed oil wars, the end of America, surviving a military coup and why Christ [...]

Washington Still Has Problems With Democracy in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot This op-ed was distributed by McClatchy Tribune Information Services on July 7, 2010 and published by the Sacramento Bee (CA) and other newspapers. If anyone wants to reprint it, please let CEPR know, by replying to this message. Imagine that Barack Obama, upon taking office [...]