Gee. I wonder who'd do that?

Thank goodness this is America, the land of the totally free!

Clearly you're accustomed to how things "evolve" in some sectors when there's any hint of socialism mentioned.

and bashing the USA with it. But that's freedom of speech for ya.

... that the anti Cuba crowd here uses as the gospel truth.

Good for the goose = good for the gander. Deal with it.

It has been verified that some people say that the threats to Marsalis came from Miami's intransigent exile community, because Marsalis played music in Castro's Communist Cuba.

"It has been verified that some people say..."

Very funny.

Elizardo Sanchez confirms that some people said that one of their cousin's friends heard from someone who said that he was told that ...

The Venezuelan opposition intimidated Amnesty International's showing of the film, The Revolution Will Not be Televised, due to an onslaught of their threats, insisting they withdraw it from the Vancouver Film Festival in British Colombia.

It's mentioned in this interview with one of the people involved in the filming:

Rod StonemanThe author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Case Studies of Politics and the Media speaks exclusively to LWLies.Marlon Dolcy

Tuesday, December 02 2008 18:24 GMT

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LWLies: Why do you think the film was so controversial, considering the BBC and Ofcom reports and the withdrawal of the film from Amnesty International’s film festival?

Stoneman: The BBC inquiry saw nothing wrong with our documentary, but an inquiry had to be made because they invested in the film and they had to protect their name. In the case of Amnesty International, I don’t entirely blame them for withdrawing the film because they came under increased intimidation, where threats were made to their staff in Caracas. However, I am a little disappointed that they did not have stronger nerves to fall at the first hurdle of the film’s reception.

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/features/interviews/rod-stoneman-2250

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Why is Amnesty Not Screening a New Documentary About the Failed 2002 Coup in Venezuela?
Today we take a look at a controversial new documentary about the unsuccessful 2002 coup in Venezuela. The film titled, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" received a rave review from The New York Times but the organizers of the Amnesty International Film Festival in Vancouver have canceled a planned screening of the film that was scheduled to open today.

Main opposition parties in Venezuela organized a petition against the film and garnered 7,000 signatures.

The documentary tells the tale of one of the shortest Presidential overthrows in Latin American history. On April 11, 2002, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was removed from power by a coalition of military officials and business leaders. But the attempted coup d’etat failed and Chavez returned to office two days later.

The documentary’s two Irish filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain happened to be in the Presidential Palace both when Chavez was removed and when he returned.

Tape: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” – Excerpts of the new documentary about the unsuccessful 2002 coup in Venezuela.
Don Wright, Organized the Amnesty International film festival in Vancouver, Canada.
Eva Golinger-Moncada, Executive Director of the Venezuela Solidarity Committee in New York. She has come out strongly against the Amnesty Film Festival in Vancouver’s decision to take the award-winning documentary “The Revolution will not be Televised” off their screening list.
Alexandra Beech, Venezuelan-American who writes for the Daily International News Review of Venezuela which is posted on one of the main Chavez opposition group’s websites www.11abril.com . She has written extensively on the flaws in the documentary that Chavez opposition groups are claiming re-write history to favor Chavez.

More:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5168.htm

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CanPalNet Statement on the Cancellation of
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
by Amnesty International

Amnesty International (AI) has organized a film festival in Vancouver (Nov 6 to 9) at Pacific Cinemateque. One of the films being shown is "Israel's Secret Weapon", a film that Canpalnet premiered in Canada with the presence of the producer, Giselle Portenier. It is a film we are pleased is being shown at the AI film festival. We encourage people to see it whenever possible.
But Amnesty International also has peremptorally cancelled the showing of another important film they had advertised, scheduled, and which is available. This film deals with the violations of the human rights of Venezuelans by those who orchestrated an unsuccessful coup to overthrow that country's elected president, Hugo Chavez.

Amnesty had been pressured by pro-coup forces to cancel the film and has capitulated. Amnesty now says that the human rights of ordinary Venezuelans are too controversial and "political" a matter for them, and therefore they have cancelled the showing of the acclaimed documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". Though they lack the determination to resist political pressure for censorship, AI still acknowledges that the film is relevant to the human rights concerns they had wanted to "highlight".

This selective attention to human rights is contrary to the avowed mandate of Amnesty. We regard the human rights of Venezuelans no less important than those of Palestinians, or our own. And we understand well that a world in which the rights of some can be sacrificed is a world in which the rights of all are unacceptably insecure. So we choose solidarity instead of selective concern.

More:
http://www.canpalnet.ca/archive/amnestystmt.html