An excellent op-ed by The Guardian’s Seumas Milne sums up the changes underway in South America, citing “South of the Border”: “Both the scale of the transformation and the misrepresentation of what is taking place in the western media are driven home in Oliver Stone’s new film, South of the Border, which allows six of these new wave leaders to speak for themselves. Most striking is their mutual support and common commitment – from Cristina Kirchner of Argentina to the more leftist Evo Morales – to take back ownership of their continent.”

It has been generally standard fare in the media to refer to Venezuela’s Globovision as the “sole opposition-aligned television channel,” as the AP has put it.  Rarely, if ever, is the actual reporting of Globovision put into context, which makes a July 29 Los Angeles Times article all the more amazing.  Chris Kraul and Mery [...]

Mark Weisbrot’s new response to New York Times reporter Larry Rohter’s latest attacks on “South of the Border” was posted on the History News Network site yesterday…

FAIR questions why the Washington Post editorial board would cite an alleged photo of an ELN guerrilla commander drinking Venezuelan beer as evidence of Venezuelan support for the FARC, which is, after all a different armed group.

Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms Eighteen months ago, Tariq Ali got a call from Oliver Stone: could he help with his new film? The result was a powerful documentary about Latin America – and a new friendship by Tariq Ali Monday 26 July 2010 21.31 BST Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call [...]

Attending the Traverse City Film Festival?
If so, be sure to catch today’s screening of South of the Border at 6pm at the Milliken Auditorium.
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Venezuela’s Chavez Threatens to Cut Off US Oil Published on Monday, July 26, 2010 by Agence France Presse CARACAS – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil supplies to the United States if it were to back a Colombian military attack on Venezuela, warning Washington to stay out of the fray. Chavez broke [...]

Oliver Stone offers his take on Hugo Chavez By MICK LASALLE FILM WRITER July 23, 2010, 4:12PM Oliver Stone might not be the ideal reporter to send on a truth-seeking mission to South America, but if nobody else wants to do it, we have to take what we can get. In South of the Border, Stone travels [...]

Oliver Stone’s Latin Film Published: July 24, 2010 To the Editor: “Oliver Stone’s Latin America” (Arts pages, June 26) tries to discredit our film, “South of the Border,” by raising questions about its accuracy. On our Web site, www.Southoftheborderdoc.com, we deal with each of the points that your article raises: geography, oil imports, the 2002 coup [...]

Oliver Stone nails Latin America’s troubled relationship with the USA Political interference and studio nervousness have undermined so many worthy films on the subject, it’s a wonder that South Of The Border got made, let alone seen in the USA.. The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010 by John Patterson Despite my many differences with Oliver Stone [...]