Argentina Latente (Fernando Solanas)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002581/ When most people think of Argentina, they think of the inflation, poverty and helplessness that plagued the country in the wake of the financial crises of recent years. Actually, argues Fernando Solanas, Argentina is one of the richest countries in the world. Its shoreline, potable waters and farmland are bountiful. It has the sixth largest metal reserves in the world. It was, after the USSR, the United States and France, the fourth country to put a living being in space and bring him safely back to Earth. For Solanas, the fact that many Argentines don’t know that they are the owners of this enormous innate wealth is the result of “mental colonialism.” In an attempt to change this, he dedicates his film to “the young men and women, workers and scientists, willing to recover latent Argentina.” This Argentina of 36 million people is full of contradictions. A third of its population lives in poverty, and only one third has a high school education. Privatization of industry has left the country with polluted waterways, factory closures and a colossal brain drain. Not unlike a feisty, rebellious lawyer putting a powerful antagonist on trial, Solanas demonstrates that multinational corporations have corrupted Argentina with their wealth, forced the closure of the country’s greatest industries and are rendering the country unable to develop, leaving it ripe only for the exploitation of its natural resources. This film, the third of a series by Solanas, is an impassioned call for social and economic justice to inspire us all. —Miguel Pendás Subtitles: http://www.opensubtitles.com/en/search/sublanguageid-all/fulltextuseor-on/fixinput-on/idmovie-28991