South of the Border (2009 film)
South of the Border is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Oliver Stone. The documentary premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. Writer for the project Tariq Ali calls the documentary a political road movie. Stone stated that he hopes the film will help people better understand a leader who is wrongly ridiculed as a strongman, as a buffoon, as a clown.
The documentary examines the freemarket economic policies of the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund, and how they have largely failed to alleviate Latin Americas chronic income inequality. The film suggests that financial calamities such as the Argentine peso collapse of 2001, combined with Latin suspicions of U.S. drugeradication efforts and resentment over the selling off of natural resources through multinational companies, have contributed to the rise of socialist and socialdemocratic leaders across the region.According to the Associated Press, Stone said he didnt see it necessary to present the oppositions case in his film. ........
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