'The Kidnap Express': Chavez and the great divide

[OKNancy]

'The Kidnap Express': Chavez and the great divide
Venezuela's rich and poor have been brought to violent life in a new film that explores the dark side of the Bolivarian revolution. The people love it but the Government hates it

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article624139.ece

It starts in the early hours in downtown Caracas, in a nightclub full of wealthy, drug-snorting members of the city's decadent elite. It ends several hours, later with a member of that wealthy sliver of Venezuelan society having been kidnapped and held to ransom, her boyfriend having been shot dead and with her having almost been raped before finally being dumped on the edge of the city.

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But while Secuestro Express (Kidnapping Express) has been hugely popular among Venezuelan film fans it has not been so well received by the government and supporters of President Hugo Chavez. When the film came out in Venezuela last summer the Vice-President, Jose Vincent Rangel, denounced it as "a miserable film, a falsification of the truth with no artistic value".

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Bolivarian revolutionary hero of the people who has stood up against the threats of Washington or ego-driven autocrat? Or a man who has invested the nation's oil wealth in health clinics and education or just a cunning populist? Buy your popcorn and take your pick.

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More at the link posted above.

[pretzel4gore]

1. very little energy to worry about Venezuela

especially as they have a popular president who, for good or ill, plays the game and wins, which the SA people aint seen before (since Simon Bolivar)....we here in NA are members of one of the most vile, corrupt societies in history, a murderous pig of a thing that is literally addicted to lies (and lying liars eager to keep em supplied)...the critics kept clinton on an even keel for 8 long years - but they've lubricated the steps for president bush, made it inpossible to get a grip, and stop sliding down down down! And now the same buncha traitors want Hugo Chavez to benefit from media oversight? While Dear leader Bush gets nothing! that is ridiculous....