[Mitai-announce] 1/30 (F): MOVIE: Coup in Venezuela

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The MIT Western Hemisphere Project invites you to attend
the last in our January series of Friday Night Films:
  
  
   The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
   A documentary by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain (Venezuela)

   7 pm,  Friday, January 30,  MIT Room 66-110

   Admission is free, but please arrive early.


DETAILS:

On April 11, 2002, the world awoke to the news that democratically
elected President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela had been replaced by a
self-appointed interim government composed of business executives
& military officials.  In the mass media, report after report
described the chaos in Caracas, where eleven people had apparently
been killed in "bloody street battles" between Chavez supporters &
the opposition.  It was said that Chavez had ordered the killings
& had therefore been forced to resign.  The Bush Administration
voiced its support for the coup.  Even the "liberal" New York Times
celebrated.  Film-makers Donnacha O'Briain & Kim Bartley were
inside Venezuela's presidential palace at the time of the coup.
They were also there at the denouement some 48 hours later.  Come
watch the film they made. 

Joining us will be Andres Izarra, a journalist who appears in the
film.  A former Latin America assignment editor at CNN, at the
time of the coup Mr. Izarra was production manager for Venezuela's
highest-rated newscast, "El Observador."  Two days later, he was
forced to resign.  "Ever since," as Naomi Klein put it in _The_
_Nation_, "he has been sounding the alarm about the threat posed
to democracy when the [Venezuelan?] media decide to abandon
journalism and pour all their persuasive powers into winning a
war being waged over oil."

Special guests:  Bernardo Alvarez Herrera
                 Venezuelan Ambassador to the USA

                 Martin Pacheco
                 Consul-General of Venezuela, Boston


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