Gonzalo Arijon's documentary, "Eyes Wide Open" can be streamed

[EFerrari]

for a limited time at LINK TV.

"In his 1971 standard work Open Veins in Latin America, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano describes the centuries of economic exploitation of his part of the world.

Almost 40 years later, Uruguayan documentary filmmaker Gonzalo Arijon reevaluates the situation in EYES WIDE OPEN – A JOURNEY THROUGH TODAY’S SOUTH AMERICA. His search takes him from the soybean plantations of the Brazilian Amazon and the tin mines of Bolivia to the deep jungles of Ecuador.

Arijon, winner of the Joris Ivens Award in 2007 for “Stranded”, shows how the current crop of leftist leaders in these countries are attempting to resist the squandering of natural resources by large, international companies. The principal culprits he identifies are the neoliberal ideology and the ensuing wave of privatizations. Arijon’s politically committed film allows the local populations to speak for themselves, interspersing this with archive footage of speeches by the likes of Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Lula da Silva (Brazil), and Evo Morales (Bolivia). Galeano himself also talks – sometimes in poetic language – about how the rise of socialist governments in the early 21st century is benefitting Latin America, and what more can be done."

http://www.linktv.org/programs/eyes-wide-open

[flamingdem]

1. Thanks for the link nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. After a few minutes, knew this is something to see, for sure.

Loved hearing the thought expressed that the third world has been used to finance the first world. Couldn't be more accurate, unfortunately, could it?

Thanks for bringing this to a place where others can watch it and share it, too.

It looks wonderful.

On edit, recommending. :hi:

[EFerrari]

3. I could listen to Galeano for hours, lol.

:hi:

[Peace Patriot]

4. K&R! Thanks, EFerrari! nt

[EFerrari]

5. The next time one of us finds a good doc

what we should do is arrange a time to stream it together in different places and make it a movie night.

:hi:

[Peace Patriot]

6. That's a great idea, E!

We might start with some oldies but goodies, like "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Lord, what a great documentary that was!

[EFerrari]

7. I'd be up for that. Watching a good documentary again

always yields new information.

[joshcryer]

8. Are you going to follow it up with X-Ray of a Lie?

:rofl:

[sabrina 1]

9. Have they made a documentary of the U.S. role in the destruction

of South American countries? "X-Ray of a Lie" sounds like a good title for such a documentary.

It's just wonderful what is happening in South America. People taking back their countries from Western supported brutal dictators and electing their own leaders democratically.

And the U.S. is still funding the rightwing opposition to try to topple those democratically elected governments. Shameful how this country will not support democracies, only dictators.