[HCCN] film SOUTH OF THE BORDER, Blue Hill Febr. 25

[Judith Robbins]

Peninsula Peace & Justice

P.O.Box 1515

Blue Hill ME 04614



BLUE HILL – Peninsula Peace & Justice will present the Oliver Stone  
documentary SOUTH OF THE BORDER on Friday February 25th. Director  
Stone set out on a road trip across five countries, interviewing  
seven of the region’s elected presidents. Exploring the new social  
and political movements, he also reveals the mainstream media’s  
misperception of South America.


The documentary examines the free-market economic policies promoted  
by the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund over the last several  
years, and how they have largely failed to alleviate Latin America's  
chronic income inequality. Tariq Ali who collaborated with Stone to  
make the film has remarked that: "These changes that are taking place  
are not coming about through armed struggle or guerrilla warfare or  
Che Guevara. All these changes have come about through democratic  
elections. And that makes it a very, very significant development in  
that continent."

In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo  
Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner   
(Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor  
Kirchner,  Fernando Lugo  (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and  
Raúl Castro  (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new  
light upon the exciting transformations in the region. The film  
suggests that financial calamities such as the Argentine peso  
collapse of 2001, combined with Latin suspicions of U.S. drug- 
eradication efforts and resentment over the selling off of natural  
resources through multinational companies, also have contributed to  
the rise of socialist and social-democratic leaders across the region.


The film will be shown at 7:00 p.m. at Blue Hill Library. It is the  
second in the Winter Film Series of Peninsula Peace & Justice. Events  
are free and open to the public. Fmi 326-4405



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