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Chavez -- Inside the Coup televised

pault | 16.10.2003 14:02 | Venezuela | Culture | Social Struggles

Chavez, Inside the Coup will be shown on BBC2 at 23:20 BST as part of the Storyville season. More information on this film [described as "The best television programme in the world this year"] can be found at the film's website:  http://www.chavezthefilm.com.

Set your videos folks.

From the film's website:

"The documentary, which depicted the overthrow and return to power of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in a coup in 2002, was directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha Ó Briain and produced by David Power of the Galway-based independent company [Power Pictures]. The company had secured unique access to President Chavez for an observational documentary and were with him in the Presidential Palace in Caracas when the coup took place."

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