Today, the people of Latin America are again rising up, against an empire built on an...
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Today, the people of Latin America are again rising up, against an empire built on an extreme form of capitalism known as the Washington Consensus. Whole countries have been privatized, put up for sale, their natural wealth sold to foreign companies for peanuts. In Venezuela they have said "No more!"
Today, the people of Latin America are again rising up, against an empire built on an extreme form of capitalism known as the Washington Consensus. Whole countries have been privatized, put up for sale, their natural wealth sold to foreign companies for peanuts. In Venezuela they have said "No more!"
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And the people in the barrios started to fight back
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Down from the shanties they came too rescue their president
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The farther you take my rights away
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The faster I will run
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Movie Summary
Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people's struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.
