DOCUMENTAL: LA GUERRA CONTRA LA DEMOCRACIA - cuando los gringos imponen su democracia falsa al mundo

Documentary
United Kingdom / Australia, 2007

Writer: John Pilger
Directed by: Christopher Martin, John Pilger, Sean Crotty

'The War On Democracy' (2007) was John Pilger's first for cinema. It explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.

Using archive footage sourced by Michael Moore's archivist Carl Deal, the film shows how serial US intervention, overt and covert, has toppled a series of legitimate governments in the Latin American region since the 1950s. The democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende, for example, was ousted by a US backed coup in 1973 and replaced by the military dictatorship of General Pinochet. Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador have all been invaded by the United States.