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 [...]

Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez severs ties with Colombia 23 July 2010 by Jeremy McDermott Venezuela has broken off diplomatic relations with Colombia and ordered Colombian diplomats to leave the country by Sunday. President Hugo Chavez said he had “no choice” after Colombia accused Venezuela of being a haven for guerrillas – a charge he denies. [...]

An analysis by Kevin Young compares U.S. media coverage of Iran’s infamous 2009 elections with Honduras’ November vote for president. Young finds that while repression in the aftermath of the Iranian elections received considerable coverage in the U.S. press, reporting on repression before, during, and after the Honduran elections “was almost non-existent”.

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER – 2 hours ago LONDON — The Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that the United States should follow the example of South American socialists in nationalizing its energy industry, filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday. The Academy Award-winning director of “Born on the Fourth of July” and “JFK” said that America’s [...]

A high-level meeting in Venezuela earlier this month, in which senior Latin American and Caribbean diplomats from 32 countries discussed the creation of a new forum for regional concertation, slipped under the radar of the entire U.S. media. Indeed, the only English-language report on the event that appeared in the mainstream media was filed by the French press agency AFP which informed its limited US readership that the meeting participants had decided that Venezuela and Chile would be heading “a new regional bloc that will include all countries in the Americas except Canada and the United States.”

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AlterNet / By Daniela Perdomo 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. July 12, 2010 | After decades of military dictatorships and IMF puppetry in Latin America, the southern cone of the New World is slowly but [...]

Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle Review: ‘South of the Border’ Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic Friday, July 16, 2010 …Stone doesn’t seem even to think he’s offering the last word here. Rather, he’s trying to offer the first word, or at least a first opportunity to hear the other side, unfiltered by television media. Chavez’s [...]

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by Robert Naiman Tue Jul 13, 2010 “South of the Border” takes aim at the media for its misinformed and misleading coverage of Latin America. The film includes clips from CNN, network news programs, the New York Times, Fox News, and other media to demonstrate just how bad the coverage can be. But a host [...]