Filmmaker Oliver Stone meets Bolivia's Morales for interview, coca

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Filmmaker Oliver Stone meets Bolivia's Morales for interview, coca
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LA PAZ, Bolivia - U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone kicked a soccer ball and chewed coca leaves with Bolivia's leftist president Tuesday during an interview for a planned documentary.

Stone's meeting with President Evo Morales is likely fodder for the director's documentary on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a close ally of Morales.

Bolivian government photos showed Morales and Stone chewing coca and kicking a ball around the lawn of the presidential residence in La Paz.

Coca leaves are revered in Bolivia as a mild, traditional stimulant, but are better known abroad as the main ingredient in cocaine.



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Attending the creation of UNASUR, sitting with Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.

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South American President members of UNASUR

[kevsand]

1. Are those top two photos from the movie "Scarface"? /nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. No, they're photos of Evo Morales playing soccer in Bolivia. No "Scarface."

Apparently he's pretty good at it, has played for years.

[kevsand]

4. It was a joke. /nt

[Judi Lynn]

3. O. Stone adds glamour to “Revolution in South America”

Thursday, January 15, 2009
O. Stone adds glamour to “Revolution in South America”

US film maker and director Oliver Stone working on a project on Latinamerican leaders interviewed on Wednesday in Buenos Aires Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who praised the initiative as “a different version of what is happening here”.

The interview in the Olivos presidential residence also marked the return of the Argentine leader to her agenda of activities after having spent almost a week resting on medical orders recovering from what was diagnosed as lipotimia and dehydration.

Stone is working on a documentary “the revolution in South America” with interviews to the most notorious “Socialist or left leaning” leaders of the continent, including Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez; Cuba’s Raul Castro; Evo Morales in Bolivia; Rafael Correa in Ecuador and on Tuesday Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo, a former catholic bishop.

“It’s an excellent idea that a film director of the prestige and performance of Oliver Stone should be interested in de-coding and interpreting what is happening in this region and give the world a different version of what is going on”, said Mrs. Kirchner next to the US director.

She added that Stone’s project will help contribute “to translate what is happening in the world, particularly in those countries where everything is on doubt and what seemed universal paradigms no longer are such”.

Mrs. Kirchner said that the project should help the US citizen to beware of what he’s been taught or told about the history of the region, “particularly in certain schools and academia circles who think they know everything but can’t work out what is going on”.

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