| The Revolution Is not going to Be Televised (a.k.a. | | | | been also current 48 several hours after when, |
| Chavez: Within the Coup) is really a 2002 | | | | remarkably, he returned to energy amid cheering aides. |
| documentary in regards to the April 2002 Venezuelan | | | | Getting its title from your poem/song by Gil |
| coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan | | | | Scott-Heron, The Revolution Won't Be Televised is |
| President Hugo Chávez. A tv crew from Ireland's | | | | definitely an award-winning international documentary. |
| Radio Telifís Éireann happened to become | | | | Irish filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain |
| recording a documentary about Chávez during the | | | | went to Venezuela to make a documentary |
| occasions of April 11, 2002. | | | | concerning the charismatic, democratically elected |
| Shifting focus, they adopted the events because they | | | | president, Hugo Chavez. |
| occured. Throughout their filming, the crew recorded | | | | Very common with the Venezuelan persons, Chavez |
| pictures with the events which they say contradict | | | | is a firm supporter of socialism and also a redistribution |
| explanations given by Chávez opposition, the private | | | | of wealth from the oil earnings in his country. He's also |
| media, the US Express Department, and then White | | | | an outspoken opponent on the Bush administration's |
| House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. | | | | tactics in Afghanistan. In April 2002, the filmmakers |
| The documentary says that the coup was the direct | | | | ended up witnessing the failed coup that took location |
| result of the conspiracy in between a variety of | | | | every time a group of oil-interested parties tried to |
| previous guard and anti-Chávez factions inside of | | | | eliminate Chavez from office. |
| Venezuela as well as the United States. | | | | Pedro Carmona was supposed to become put in |
| Their film records what was most likely history's | | | | because the new leader. However, due towards |
| shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a exclusive document | | | | loyalty of his men and women, Chavez was back in |
| about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait with | | | | power in 48 several hours. While the state-controlled |
| the man The Wall Street Journal credits with | | | | media (Channel 8 in Venezuela) gave the president a |
| generating Venezuela "Washington's main Latin | | | | call-in display to talk with the public, privatized media |
| American headache after the aged standby, Cuba." | | | | outlets reported that pro-Chavez supporters obtained |
| Chavez, elected president of Venezuela in 1988, can | | | | fired on an anti-Chavez march. |
| be a colorful folk hero, beloved by his nation's | | | | Right after creating its U.S. premiere in the 2003 South |
| functioning class along with a tough-as-nails, quixotic | | | | by Southwest Film Festival, The Revolution Won't Be |
| opponent towards the energy structure that would | | | | Televised (also known as Chavez: Within the Coup) |
| see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were | | | | has aired around the planet within the RTE, BBC, and |
| inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he | | | | CBC. |
| was forcibly eliminated from workplace. They had | | | | |