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Castro or quit? / produced & directed by Chris Woods ; produced by TVE.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 6 ; program 2.
- Life 6 ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Venezuela.
- Physicians.
- Globalization--Social aspects--Venezuela.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Economic aspects--Venezuela.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Venezuela--Social conditions--1999-.
- Venezuela.
- Social conditions.
- Venezuela--Economic conditions--1958-.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (26 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Narration in English, dialogue in English and Spanish with English voice-overs.
- System 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.
- video file
- 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.
- Participant:
- Host, Steve Bradshaw ; with Yurani Gomez Gutierrez & Florencio Quintero.
- Credits:
- Editor, Sotira Kyriacou ; series consultant, Jenny Richards ; series editor, Steve Bradshaw.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE, ©2008.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-l6coq Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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