Logan Cale Jr

I just finished watching this documentary about the 2002 coup against the democratically elected chavez. Having lots of lefty friends i've heard a lot in passing about venusula but honestly i haven't paid much attention. This is a low budget movie made by a few irish film makers there to inteview chavez when the coup happened, it's extremely interesting watching.

Chavez found himself in a uniquely strange situation. On one hand he was elected on a mandate to redistrobute the country's oil wealth. But the ruling class who also controlled the private media were bitterly opposed to this. Unlike most people who get labels socialist dictators chavez allowed complete feedom of the press and protests,(and he was elected) even when it was clear that the private media was attempting to stage a coup via television propagada. Quite an interesting watch.