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![Chavez, venezuela and the new Latin America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/1/2004Call Number: CD 333Format: DVDProducers: Aleida GuevaraCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
In February 2004, Aleida Guevara conducted an extensive interview, lasting several days, with Hugo Chavez Frias, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The interview explored Venezuela's explosive
revolutionary terrain post-April 2002--when Chavez survived a coup attempt instigated by the United States. Chavez explains his vision for Venezuela and his commitment to a unified Latin America.
He discusses Venezuela's new, democratic constitution and his country's relations with the United States and Cuba. Chavez also reveals his personal commitment to the politics of Che Guevara, Aleida's father.
Included in the DVD is an interview with General Jorge Garcia Carneiro, head of the Venezuelan armed forces, who was instrumental in encouraging the popular
resistance that thwarted the 2002 coup.
In Spanish with English subtitles
![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.
![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.
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