
Useful idiot.
Via Frances Martel:
Oliver Stone’s documentary The Untold History of the United States is hitting the very sympathetic market of socialist Venezuela this week, and the director took the opportunity to confirm to President Nicolás Maduro that he is planning a film on the life of Hugo Chavez.
“Oliver Stone is preparing a very lovely film about our commander-in-chief Hugo Chávez,” Maduro announced last week in an official state event following the director’s visit to the troubled state. Maduro, who has himself dabbled in Christmas carol composition if not outright television production like his predecessor, welcomed Stone as he visited the country to promote his latest documentary. Venezuelan state TV described the visit as friendly and Stone as an award-winning director with “good relations with Venezuela,” publishing a slideshow and video of the meeting between the director and world leader. Stone was said to spend the evening at the Palace at Miraflores and take a tour of where Chávez spent his last living months.
Major Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reports that the nation’s Minister of Communications and Information Delcy Rodríguez confirmed the upcoming film on her Twitter account, and that the government is excited about the project because of Stone’s previously “very affable” depiction of Chávez in the documentary South of the Borderabout the “hostile treatment of then-President George W. Bush” towards Latin America. Rumors had been circulating of the possibility of such a film as Stone’s latest existing since last June.


