John Pilger - The War On Democracy 4/7

Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years leading up to the struggle by ordinary people to free themselves from poverty and racism. Since the mid 19th Century Latin America has been the 'backyard' of the US, a collection of mostly vassal states whose compliant and often brutal regimes have reinforced the 'invisibility' of their majority peoples. The film reveals similar CIA policies to be continuing in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon. The rise of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez despite ongoing Washington backed efforts to unseat him in spite of his overwhelming mass popularity, is democratic in a way that we have forgotten or abandoned in the west. True Democracy being a solid 80% voter turnout in support of Chavez in over 6 elections.

Using archive footage sourced by Michael Moore's archivist Carl Deal, the film shows how serial US intervention, overt and covert, has toppled a series of legitimate governments in the region since the 1950s. The democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende, for example, was ousted by a US backed coup in 1973 and replaced by the military dictatorship of General Pinochet. Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador have all been invaded by the United States.

John Pilger interviews several ex-CIA agents who took part in secret campaigns against democratic countries in the region. He investigates the School of the Americas in the US state of Georgia, where Pinochet's torture squads were trained along with tyrants and death squad leaders in Haiti, El Salvador, Brazil and Argentina.

The film unearths the real story behind the attempted overthrow of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez in 2002 and how the people of the barrios of Caracas rose up to force his return to power.

It also looks at the wider rise of populist governments across South America lead by indigenous leaders intent on loosening the shackles of Washington and a fairer redistribution of the continent's natural wealth.

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[wyrda222]

@MrChris1316 makes u sick doesn't it. the only difference between us and what we used to do as an empire and what the nazis and the romans did is that we've learnt how to manipulate get others to do our dirty work. all empires come to an end.

[wyrda222]

Pinochet. Friend of Maggie Thatcher. Evil cunts that will surely rot in hell.

[SpaceShipWarrior]

@macpduff @macpduff TOO TRUE, IN america they look you up if you dont have stars and stripes and a blind loyalty to capitalism.

[SpaceShipWarrior]

@macpduff Coming to a star of the stripes near you soon.

[SpaceShipWarrior]

@MrChris1316 Yeah but Did we go as far as america? I don't think we could have been as heartless as america but yeah we gave them a bad example.

[SpaceShipWarrior]

RepubliNAZIS should be arrested or shot...

[MrChris1316]

if there was 16 minutes that the public in the US should watch ,this is it.it shows what there government is does and wants to do to them.As the song says ,if u tolerate this Your children will be next.we in the uk are just as complisit to all this and we as a older wiser country should be more ashamed as we gave u an example to follow.

[MrChris1316]

see at 6.50 dont they just love sept the 11th,its like some sick christmas day to the washington satanists.this is an amazing expose again by john pilger ,uve got to wonder how they have let him live this long ,or why they havent tried to fit him up with rape or paedophilia.Still the mainstream media do there best ,when this was shown first about 3 years ago i think it shared the timeslot with his other great doc,"the war we didnt see" 22.30 to 00.30.ideal for big viewing figures ...not!

[macpduff]

Yes. The right words. Ferocity and brute force.

This is the spirit of what is in America today and Americans are afraid of their government for the first time in history.

It's fascism- when businesses, banks and corporations gain full control of a people's government.

[macpduff]

It's been all about selling people and countries.

Now, the Corporations are running out of targets, and America is the present victim

Note- that part of the recipe are concentration camps!