Title: Stone goes off again.
Product review: This was another example of Stone's excess. It was by and large a puff piece, with Stone offering various Bolivarian leaders a chance to give a very one sided view of things with absolutely no witnesses offered giving a contrary view. A few quick clips of some shrill talking heads was all that was offered in rebuttal. Stone was clearly only there to promote Chavez et al. I did enjoy the one president tweaking the US empire by asking for a base in the US in return for a base in his country. The hollowness of the enterprise was shown in its worshipful attitude towards Chavez as well as bringing in Raul Castro as another example of an exemplary leader. He may yet be the inadvertent hangman of the disastrous communist interlude in Cuba. Perhaps Stone could have asked about the hideous disproportion between the lack of Afro-Cubans in the Cuban Communist party compared to the population. But that would only be in a real documentary.
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