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...told on Latin American screens has increased. The region's new films "frame societies in the making ? based on our point of view," says Central Station director Walter Salles, who just finished directing Mexico's new heartthrob, Gael García Bernal, in a film version of Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries. That means less predictable storytelling. Even though Carrera's Crime of Father Amaro is a well-worn story of clerical lust and hypocrisy, its moral center is as inscrutable as Mexico itself. We hope the young priest Amaro (played by Bernal) will be heroically redeemed when...
...sixth consecutive term as President of the Council of State, Cuba's supreme governing body; in Havana. Castro is now the world's longest-serving head of state and has been Cuba's unchallenged strongman since 1959, when his guerrilla movement, led by Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, overthrew the island-state's military dictatorship. In 1962, Castro almost caused a nuclear war when he allowed the then Soviet Union to base long-range ballistic missiles in Cuba, prompting a tense face-off between Washington and Moscow until the Soviets backed down and removed the weapons...
...hardly amigos. In fact, Chavez lost any chance of winning a chummy nickname from Bush two years ago when, during a visit to Iraq, he called Saddam Hussein "my brother." Chavez's red beret - the symbol of his "revolution," which he wears with the Yanqui-baiting swagger of Che Guevara - didn't help. Nor does the way Chavez taunts his U.S.-friendly opposition, which nearly toppled him last April in a coup, an uprising Chavez supporters accuse the Bush Administration of covertly encouraging (a charge the White House denies). "My opponents are like worn-out athletes who have to shoot...
...likely to vote Workers Party candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva into the presidency next week. "The oligarchs in this country just want to demonize Chavez because he's giving our class the chance to participate in the economic and political life of Venezuela for once," said Yosmari Guevara, 29, a bakery owner in one of Caracas's most squalid slums. She notes that under Chavez's new bank program for micro-businesses, she has received low-interest credit for the first time...
...Latin America, where free-market reforms pushed by Washington have left much of the region's 500 million people poorer. A former parliamentary Deputy from Bolivia's central coca-growing region, Morales in the past was often dismissed as a radical relic in the land where Che Guevara died. But today he's strong enough to have made it into this week's presidential runoff vote in the new parliament, facing front runner Gonzalo Sanchez, a former President. More than that, Evo-speak--"The drug war is just a U.S. excuse to control our countries"--resonates beyond Bolivia's borders...