THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY (2007)

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Plot

Pilger's documentary focuses on Latin America and US policies to keep the people in these countries subjugated, impoverished and rid of that scourge of imperialism - democracy. We start in Venezuela with some interesting chats with the democratically elected and refomist President Chavez with references to the US's attempts to violently overthrow him, although Pilger chides him as to why there is still so much poverty while big business seems to be raking in the dosh. We're given brief resumes of US anti-democratic and violent actions in Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Savador, Bolivia and Chile. Eventually we're shown comparisons betwen the current pro-US democratic rulers in Chile and the more patriotic ones in Bolivia. There are also interviews with survivors of torture by US or US trained personnel, local people pro and anti whatever and a few with both apologist and hard-nut past and present US officials.