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Chavez, Venezuela and the new Latin America Chavez, Venezuela and the new Latin America
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.
Venezuela Rising Venezuela Rising
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 611Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The documentary starts five days before it is to be decided by popular referendum whether Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will continue in office or step down. The entire nation has been mobilized – will it be SI – yes he will be recalled, or NO – he will remain in office. Issues of democracy and politics, what constitutes a free and fair election. Venezuela Rising gets behind the headlines and into the neighborhoods of Caracas to find out how participatory democracy works on the ground.
Turmoil - Venezuela's political violence, economic sabotage and oil Turmoil - Venezuela's political violence, economic sabotage and oil
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 Chavez, Venezuela and the new Latin America
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 Llaguno Bridge: Keys to a Massacre
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.
El Despertarde Ameroiberica II:De Bolivar a Chavez (From Bolivar to Chavez) El Despertarde Ameroiberica II:De Bolivar a Chavez (From Bolivar to Chavez)
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.)