Chavez: Inside the Coup- Reel Work Labor Film Festival

When

Apr 22, 2019    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Where

Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060

Event Type

Chávez: Inside The Coup

Monday, April 22

7 pm • Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
Trailer for Chávez: Inside the Coup

(Kim Bartley & Donnacha O’Briain, 2003, 74 min, Venezuela)

In April 2002, the democratically elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, faced a coup d’état by a US-backed opposition party. The two-day coup failed to topple Chávez, but the tumultuous event proved to be great dramatic material for two Irish filmmakers who happened to be making a documentary about Chávez as the coup erupted.

Discussion following the film

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