The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!

You can now watch the excellent documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" for free online at this website. It makes for compulsive viewing - better than any Hollywood thriller I've seen in years.

Here's the blurb from the website:

This behind the scenes documentary focuses on the media's role in the 2002 coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when Hugo Chavez was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état.

You can read more about the coup here at Wikipedia and about American involvement in the coup (all that oil needs a steady hand to regulate) at the Guardian here. Interesting that once again Elliot Abrams was in the forefront of channelling U.S. support to overthrow democratically elected leaders.

I seem to recall reading an article in the newspaper a few years ago about how some OPEC leaders had been tipped off in advance about the coup by American government officials, but I can't find it on the web at the moment so maybe I was just imagining things.

Go watch the documentary!

IZ