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![Inside the CIA, On Company Business, Part 2-Assassination](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: V 085Format: VHSProducers: Howard Dratch, Allan FrancovichCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Testimony of former agents, archival footage, first-hand accounts of victims of CIA-backed torture, and other interviews reveal CIA’s mode of operation as well as its goals in Latin America. Goes into depth on subversion of labor movements. Also intervention in Brazil in particular as well as Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Mentions Chile and others targets of CIA.
![Chavez, Venezuela and the new Latin America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/1/2004Call Number: V 227Format: DVDProducers: Oceanfilm - Alea GuevaraCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In February 2004, Alea Guevara (the daughter of Che Guevara) conducted an extended, exclusive interivew with Hugo Chavez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, exploring Venezuela's explosive revolutionary terrain post-April 2002 — when Hugo Chávez survived a coup attempt instigated by the United States. Featuring interviews with Hugo Chávez, and Jorge García Carneiro, newly appointed head of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, along with others involved in the country's many social programs, this film affords a rare opportunity to glimpse through the blockade of information imposed by the United States and into a country rich with hope, dreams and... oil.
![Journey with the Revolution](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 267Format: DVDProducers: Global Women's Strike - Finn Arden, Nina LopezCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A journey into the heart of the Venezuelan revolution. Meet the midwives, nurses, doctors, housewives, teachers, gay and disability activists, who are transforming Venezuela. Visit health clinics, soup kitchens, land committees, education and micro-credit programmes… The excitement of the revolution is contagious.
Features: President Hugo Chávez, “the president of the poor”; Nora Castañeda, President of the Women’s Development Bank; Sharmini Peries, Adviser to President Chávez on International Relations.
![Venezuela: Talking of Power](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 286Format: VHSProducers: Global Women's StrikeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Sex, race & class in revolutionary Venezuela. From the hills of Caracas to the banks of the Orinoco, the grassroots tell us how they are changing our world. Clips of President Chavez; Nora Castañeda, Women’s Development Bank, and others.
![Venezuela: Revolution From The Inside Out (2008)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 651Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Director Clifton Ross toes his camera with him through Venezuela on bus and car trips to discover the back workings of the Bolivian Revolution. Through interviews and lasting images Ross takes the audience through the country to show the ability of a people to unite amidst a struggle.
![Turmoil - Venezuela's political violence, economic sabotage and oil](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2012Call Number: V 665Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Explores the centrality of how oil has affected both the political situation and foreign relations between the US and Venezuela. Also how the progressive changes are met with opposition from the wealthy elites and US government.
![Chavez, Venezuela and the new Latin America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 668Format: DVDProducers: Aleida GuevaraCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviewed by Aleida Guevara, the daughter of the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara. He expresses a fiercely nationalist vision for Venezuela and a commitment to a united Latin America. He also discusses the significance of the military coup against his government in April 2002, Venezuela’s new democratic constitution, the extensive social programs undertaken as part of the Bolivarian revolution and assesses his country’s relations with the United States and Cuba.
In what became a remarkably intimate dialogue over several days, Chávez is probed about his personal political formation and his views about the legacy of Che Guevara’s ideas and example in Latin America today.
![Llaguno Bridge: Keys to a Massacre](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 673Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On April 11, 2002, a group of rebelling military officers, together with opposition leaders and the mainstream media, staged a coup d’état against Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters were killed in the confusing events of that day. Chávez was jailed. Pedro Carmona, the head of Venezuela’s elite business federation, FEDECAMERAS, was sworn in as de facto president, quickly abolishing the country’s 1999 Constitution, disbanding the Congress, and installing a virtual media blackout.
Less than two days later, however, pro-Chávez supporters descended from the poor barrios around Caracas and Venezuela. They surrounded the presidential palace, Miraflores, and demanding that their president be returned. Within a few hours Chávez was back in power.
![Venezuela: La Revolucion Del Siglo 21](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 690Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film focuses on the Venezuela revolution of the 21st century. It pays particular attention to the role and activities of indigenous peoples and women. This social transition was led by the Hugo Chavez and the film contains portions of interviews and speeches.
![El Despertarde Ameroiberica II:De Bolivar a Chavez (From Bolivar to Chavez)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 705Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary presents the struggle of the Venezuelan people for independence during the 18th century and also the continued struggle in the 21st century against U.S. imperialism. Spanish only. (Este documental presenta la lucha del pueblo Venezolano para la independencia durante el siglo 18 y tambien la lucha continua en el siglo 21 contra la intervencion Norteamericana y el sentimiento antiimperialista del pueblo Latinoamericano.)
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