Venezuela from Below (2004) (repost with new tracker)

This documentary consists mostly of interviews with working-class Venezuelan women and men, including a few long-time left activists, talking about how they have been affecting and affected by the changes in Venezuela since the election of Hugo Chavez. It will disappoint those looking for "balance" between revolutionary and counter-revolutionary views, but will be of great interest to those interested in understanding the accomplishments and limitations of the Bolivarian process. It also has some nice musical interludes to prevent information overload. The full title of the original DVD is Venezuela Von Unten/Venezuela From Below/Venezuela Desde Abajo. The audio is all in Spanish, but the German and English versions are subtitled and captioned -- very professionally -- in the respective languages. The version presented here is with English subtitles. The videomakers are Dario Azzellini, a journalist and long-time Berlin resident, and Oliver Ressler, a Viennese artist working largely in video and installations. They have recently released a new DVD, "5 Factories: Worker Control in Venezuela" (also in three languages). Their web sites are at http://www.azzellini.net/ and http://www.ressler.at/. While I have the permission of the videographers to distribute this video in various forms, the quality of this rip and the content of these notes are my responsibility. P.S. This video was uploaded to the now-defunct rebeltorrent.net tracker a few months ago. It is now using the tracker at torrentbox.com. I have changed the name of the file slightly in this reload because the previous filename, Vemezuela.From.Below.XVID.mpga.avi, had an embarrassing spelling error. Anybody who has it already under that name can help seed by merely changing the filename to Venezuela_from_Below.XVID.mpga.avi. P.P.S. I'm presuming that the "SHA hash of file" is what shows up in the .xml version of the .torrent under 'KEY name="sha1".