Here is a fantastic documentary of the failed attempt by powerful people backed by the CIA to overtake Venezuela and how the people didn’t let it happen, bringing Hugo Chavez back.

Chavez is clearly not the Bible thumping maniac the mainstream media would have us believe. From what I see in this film he seems dedicated to an open society. A free society. A society that benefits the majority but has a place for voices of the minority to speak up.

This documentary shows how crucial media is in our awareness and perception of reality. The message IS the medium and I am very happy that technology is leveling the field. The mainstream media networks could create a very convincing reality but I don’t know they could stand a chance against the mass of individual media ranging from twitter to blogs, vlogs, text messaging, image uploads, cell phones, and any number of yet undiscovered communication devices.

This documentary is a wonderful insight into the real workings of politics, something that is easily relegated to metaphors and abstractions. But in this film you see real people struggling with real decisions. It is a very heartening film and runs with a plot better than any Hollywood story because at each second you are acutely aware that it is real. This actually happened.

The film makers are consecutively flies on the wall and self conscious participants showing how media both records and shapes history.

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