Jon Lee Anderson on Latin America

[Hugo Chavez]

One of America’s most respected reporters, Jon Lee Anderson of the New Yorker talks to Allan Little about the new left-wing movement in Latin America, the friendship between Fidel Castro and his protégé Hugo Chavez and reaction in the US to the perceived threat from the south.


http://www.viddler.com/explore/frontlineclub/videos/147/

includes some interesting insights into racial aspects of Venezuela.  I would suggest IFBB watch but what would be the point?

[Hugo Chavez]

at 1:15:15 in the video, there's a question asked.  In the answer Anderson brings up something I've commented on here with HH6 and others about understanding how leaders like Chavez and Castro and Morales rise.  "They did not come about in isolation or without adverse influences and they continue to be affected by those adverse influences."  They are in large products of unnecessary influences.  I think this is one of the most important lessons people and governments should understand fully and take lessons from.  The picture could be completely different and it's sad to see the same ill conceived adverse influences continuing as though they were never wrong.