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...South of the Border, which is amateurish as cinema, myopic and cheerleaderish in its worldview. Stone sees the geopolitical glass as all empty (the U.S. and its world banking arm, the International Monetary Fund) or all full (Chávez and his comrade Presidentes in South America). As big a celebrity as any of the leaders he interviews, Stone kicks a football around with Chávez and shares coca leaves with Bolivian President Evo Morales. Never does he raise prickly questions - for instance, about human-rights violations and attacks on journalists in Venezuela. The director leaves those stinging salvos...
...there are stars, and then there's Hugo Chávez, the prime subject of Oliver Stone's docu-pic South of the Border. The Venezuelan President arrived on the Lido with a couple dozen bodyguards - an unnecessary precaution since the festival crowd greeted the movie with rapture, applauding Chávez's more fiery statements and booing whenever George W. Bush came on the screen. At the end, el Presidente strode into the audience, giving an impromptu five-minute speech and shaking the hand of anyone within reach. (See pictures from the 65th Venice Film Festival...
After agreeing to arms and oil deals, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev announced Sept. 13 that Russia would help the South American country develop nuclear energy. "We're not going to make an atomic bomb," said Chávez, "so don't be bothering...
...Organization of American States (OAS), which this summer expelled Honduras in response to the coup, reiterated its support for Arias' efforts. But it's clear that Chávez and the Latin leftist bloc known as ALBA (the Spanish initialism for the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, named after South American independence hero Simón Bolívar) have grown impatient with the U.S.- and OAS-led negotiation process. After Zelaya's ouster, ALBA crafted its own proclamation calling for his unconditional return and encouraging Hondurans to revolt against Micheletti. The Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS, Denis Moncada, went...
...instead of turning him into a political martyr," he says - he feels ALBA's "bad-faith grandstanding" is hurting the pact's chances even more. But Reina and other ALBA representatives insist the onus is on Micheletti and the coup leaders, who "are always using President Chávez and ALBA as scapegoats for their illegal actions." Either way, the game Zelaya and his foes are playing now at the Brazilian embassy promises to get uglier - not just for Honduras but for the hemisphere...