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Castro or quit? / produced & directed by Chris Woods ; produced by TVE

Published
[Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (26 min.) : digital, sound, color
Additional Creators
Woods, Chris, 1966-, Kyriacou, Sotira, Richards, Jenny (Film producer), Bradshaw, Steve (Journalist), Gutierrez, Yurani Gomez, Quintero, Florencio, 1980-, Television Trust for the Environment, BBC World Service, and Bullfrog Films
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Language Note
Narration in English, dialogue in English and Spanish with English voice-overs.
Restrictions on Access
Access restricted to subscribing institutions.
Summary
Across the world people who live on the edge are the dispossessed--those left behind by globalization. True? Not quite. There's one country where it's the middle class who are on the edge--Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. Despite Chavez's recent setback at the polls, many thousands of professional people have fled the country, and some are still wondering if they should emigrate. Like many of their friends, young doctors Yurani and Florencio like to think of themselves as wanting to care for the poor as much as the rich. They even approve of many of Chavez's policies, believing they've helped the poor. Like millions across Latin America, they hoped for a regional answer to globalization, and saw hope in the triumph of leaders like Kirchner, Lula, Morales, Bachelet and Correa. Maybe socialism wasn't defeated after all. But now they believe Chavez may have gone too far. They think the Chavistas pose the middle class with a fundamental choice: help us model the country on Castro's Cuba, or quit before it's too late.
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Interest Grade
7 and up.
Note
Title from title frames.
Originally produced by: TVE, ©2008.
Creation/Production Credits Note
Editor, Sotira Kyriacou ; series consultant, Jenny Richards ; series editor, Steve Bradshaw.
Participant/Performer Note
Host, Steve Bradshaw ; with Yurani Gomez Gutierrez & Florencio Quintero.
Technical Details
System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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