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FILM: 1982 Massacre Rendered Through Dark, Distorted Lens
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - Recently opened in wide release in the United States, Ari Folman's new animated documentary detailing Israeli involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacre sheds new light on the Israeli side of that conflict, as well as the one unfolding today.
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CHILE: Finding a Place for Memory
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Chile’s socialist President Michelle Bachelet recently laid the foundation stone for the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, thus coming one step closer to carrying out one of the projects she has put a priority on, which has however given rise to criticism and reservations from both ends of the political spectrum.
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BRAZIL: Transformation Through Art and Music
By Mario Osava
SÃO LUIS, Brazil - They call it an orchestra, but this atypical all-percussion group is far from featuring the range of musicians found in a conventional ensemble. Which does not mean that the music they make is not rich and varied, as the young amateur musicians produce an amazing array of sounds.
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BOOKS-US: When Neocons Ruled Washington
By Michael Flynn*
GENEVA - In the first two pages of his book on the neoconservative movement, historian Stephen Sniegoski tells us that U.S. Mideast policy during the George W. Bush presidency has been "colossally erroneous" and "disastrous to U.S. interests", that the Iraq War is a "blunder of colossal proportions", and that an attack on Iran is a "highly likely" "disaster" unless the country "eschews all elements of the Middle East war policy".
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ARGENTINA: Bringing Films and Filmmaking to Indigenous Communities
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - With the assistance of experts from Bolivia, indigenous communities in the northeastern Argentine province of Chaco are learning how to make films, as a means of helping the rest of the world understand their way of life and the problems they face.
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FILM-LIBERIA: The Women Who Ended a War
By Marie-Helene Rousseau*
NEW YORK - One night, in a country swept up in a long and harrowing armed conflict, Liberian social worker Leymah Gbowee dreamt that she gathered women together to pray for peace.
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BOOKS: An Outside Insider Probes the Iranian Psyche
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - While in New York this fall for the U.N. General Assembly, conservative Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted to National Public Radio that he watches Western television: "Of course, I'm like the rest of the people. People like movies and shows."
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RELIGION-VENEZUELA: Santería Scams?
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - In a ritual that includes sacrificing goats or fowl, a "babalawo" priest of the Yoruba religion in Venezuela can "mount a saint" (attract blessings from forces of nature) on an initiate willing to pay up to 10,000 dollars, and sometimes even more.
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CULTURE-CUBA: Rock n’ Roll Fanzine Fights Prejudice
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - For eight years, Michel and Alexander Sánchez have been publishing Scriptorium, a fanzine (fan magazine) dedicated to rock music produced within Cuba and abroad, in a society that resists accepting this genre and its fans as part of the national culture.
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Q&A: "I Don’t Believe a 12-Year-Old Was Born to Kill"
Raúl Gutiérrez interviews CHRISTIAN POVEDA, director of ''La vida loca''
SAN SALVADOR - A group of around 20 people settle into their seats in a small conference room in a hotel in the Salvadoran capital. They are here to watch "La Vida Loca", a 90-minute documentary about the Pandilla 18 youth gang, directed and co-produced by French-Spanish filmmaker Christian Poveda.
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THEATRE-US: Undead GIs Pay a Visit to Bush
By Lucy Komisar*
NEW YORK - It might seem odd at first to compare them, but "Beast", a brutal, surreal black comedy about the Iraq war, has something in common with "The Files", a stunning, sardonic docudrama about the repression of cultural freedom by the Polish communist secret police.
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BOOKS-US: Cloak-and-Dagger, Inc.
By Pratap Chatterjee*
VANCOUVER, Canada - When Barack Obama visits the Virginia headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in the not-too-distant future, he might want to scan the room to see how many of them sport green badges, the telltale sign that they are contractors and not federal employees.
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FILM-BRAZIL: "An Artist Only Bows His Head to Thank the Audience"
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - The first three times he saw the film he could not watch it through to the end; he was so overcome by emotion he burst into tears. The next five times he did manage to see the whole movie, but tears were constantly streaming down his cheeks. Brazilian Maestro Mozart Vieira was "extraordinarily" moved by seeing his own story on screen.
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CUBA: Films that Tackle Touchy Social Issues
By Dalia Acosta
CIENFUEGOS, Cuba - "Viviendo al límite" (Living to the Limit), a documentary by Cuban filmmaker Belkis Vega that follows the lives of five HIV-positive people, will be shown for the first time on Cuban television this week, four years after its release.
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RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Children of the ‘Disappeared’ Tell Their Stories
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - For the first time, the life stories of children of people forcibly disappeared by Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship have been compiled in a book that sheds light on their experiences.
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