For one
more year, the blog had the opportunity to watch new, interesting
documentaries at the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, held on
1-10 March.
Among
them, the new documentary Make
the Economy Scream
by Aris Chatzistefanou, creator of impressively revealing
documentaries such as Catastroika,
Debtocracy,
FASCISM
INC
and This
is not a coup.
From the
description:
A Greek
journalist travels to Venezuela trying to figure out why the
politicians of his crisis-plagued country debate on whether there is
enough toilet paper in Caracas or not. Through several trips, which
bring him from the shanty towns to the borders of Colombia and back
to Europe, he discovers a reality that differs from the mainstream
media narrative.
The
creator travels not only in Venezuela, but also in other places,
seeking answers about the real causes behind the problems that this
Latin America country currently faces. The answers he gets reveal a
reality far more complex than the simplistic description often
presented by the Western mainstream media. A description which could
be easily considered a propaganda of the worst type.
The
documentary highlights the similarities with the 1973 Chilean coup as
a result of the US economic war against Salvador Allende's
administration. The US economic war against Venezuela has started
many years ago when Hugo Chavez was elected for the first time and
continued under Maduro's administration.
The
documentary explores to what degree Venezuela is indeed a "Socialist"
country. The conclusion is rather that it is not, and actually is
quite far from being Socialist. Furthermore, some support that this
exactly Venezuela's problem: that it is not Socialist enough.
Yet,
most mainstream media, especially in the US, are continuously bombing
heavily the mind of the average American with slogans of the type
'Socialism has failed in Venezuela'. We suspect that this
anti-Socialist hysteria is related to the rise and increasing
popularity of political figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez.
During
the discussion with the creator, we asked him if he thinks that the
mainstream media propaganda regarding Venezuela and other issues is
still effective. He believes that the propaganda is not very
effective among the Greek audience, but it is still quite effective
in the US and elsewhere.
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