Venezuela: Revolution in Progress

by Matthew O'Neill, Spring 2004 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of DCTV

A DCTV and Discovery-Times Production

In Venezuela: Revolution in Progress you gain unique access into the forces that almost unseated President Hugo Chavez. Truth in Venezuela becomes a relative term as an increasingly polarized population struggles to come to terms with Chavez' election.

As the White House talks about democracy marching around the world ­ it’s important to pay attention to whose drum is setting the beat in Latin America.

Venezuela supplies the U.S. with 15% of the oil we consume every day (and actually owns Citgo), yet the two countries are in a nearly constant war of words.

This film will give you some insight into the social divisions in Venezuela and how they relate to President Chavez - who often leads the rhetorical charge against “U.S. hegemony” on a continent that has had a complicated relationship with the U.S. since the Monroe doctrine ­ and where that traditional relationship is currently in radical flux.

Read more about O'Neill's film (Offsite link at DCTVNY.org)

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