Eyes Wide Open (2010)

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In 1971, the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano described the centuries-old economic exploitation of the continent in the standard work 'Open Veins in Latin America'. Almost forty years later, the Uruguayan documentary maker Gonzalo Arijon looks in 'Eyes Wide Open' at the current state of Latin America. His search takes him from the soy plantations in the Brazilian Amazon and the tin mines in Bolivia to the deep jungle of Ecuador. Arijon shows how the current left-wing leaders of these countries are trying to cope with the squandering of natural resources by major internationals. The main enemies are neoliberalism and the resulting privatizations. In Arijon's pamphlet the local population has their say, interspersed with archive footage of speeches by Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Lula da Silva (Brazil) and Evo Morales (Bolivia) among others. Galeano himself tells, in sometimes poetic terms, how the advance of socialist governments at the beginning of the twenty-first century is doing his continent good and what remains to be done in the future.

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