Original subtitles

Notes and testimony on Neo-colonialism,

Violence and liberation.

NEOCOLONIALISM AND VIOLENCE

This film was made with the collaboration of peasants, workers,

students, intellectuals and revolutionaries.

To all these we express

our deep appreciation.

Data from: the Second Declaration

of Havana; the U.N. the General Confederation of Labour

and contemporary publications

Scenes have been taken from the following films:

Tire Die by Fernando Birri, Mayoria absoluta by Leon Hirxmann

El cielo y la tierra>> by Joris lvens,

Extracts from Faena by Humberto Rios Theatre Frankestein

We thanks l'AGER FlLM of Rome for their collaboration

This film speaks of neo-colonialism

and violence in Argentina

and in most of the countries of Latin America not yet liberated

For this reason, It does not deal with Cuba, the first free territory of America

To Che Guevara and to all those who have fallen

In the struggle for Latin American liberation.

THE GREAT COUNTRY

THE GREAT UNFINISHED NATION

my first name : VICTIM

my surname : HUMILIATED

my condition: REBEL

A common past

A common enemy

A common possibility

THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGER

DISPOSSESSED, SHUT OUT, DAMNED

WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT A FALSE HISTORY

FALSE HOPES OF WEALTH

A FALSE INTERNATIONAL VIEWPOINT

FALSE ECONOMIC BELIEFS

A FALSE FREEDOM

OUR FIRST ACT

OUR FIRST WORD

TO BE FREE THERE IS ONLY ONE CHOICE

PUT THE PEOPLE IN POWER

INVENT

IDEOLOGY

ORGANIZE OUR REVOLUTION

THE DUTY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY

IS TO MAKE THE REVOLUTION

NO SOCIAL ORDER COMMITS SUICIDE

A LONG WAR

A CRUEL WAR

IMPUNITY

THE PRICE OF BECOMING MEN

A PEOPLE WITHOUT HATE CANNOT TRIUMPH

COLONIZED MAN

FREES HIMSELF THROUGH VIOLENCE

THE UNCIVILIZED WILL TEACH THE CIVILIZED

POWER

RELEASE MAN

ALL OUR ACTION

IS A CRY AGAINST IMPERIALISM

AND A PLEA FOR UNITY AGAINST THE GREAT ENEMY: THE U.S.A.

"for having loved too much...."

Latin America is a continent at war:

For the ruling classes, a war of oppression

For the oppressed peoples, a war of liberation

1: HISTORY

The independence of the Latin American Countries

was betrayed from birth

It was betrayed by the exporting elite of the port cities.

In the same year Bolivar consolidated independence in Ayacucho

Rivadavia signed a Trick-loan in Buenos Aires

with the Baring Brothers Bank

British merchants took over

the national bank that issued the country's currency

and, in the name of free trade,

their manufacturers invaded the internal market

From that moment on. England replaced Spain

In dominating almost all the continent.

what it had not obtained before with armies

It now obtained with its loans

The country exported wool and imported textiles

It exported meat and leather

and imported grand pianos

The exporting agricultural bourgeoisie

thus became an agrarian appendage

of European industry

For the first time in history,

here, in Latin America,

a new form of domination began to be applied:

the exploitation of colonial commerce

through the local bourgeoisie

This was the birth of neo-colonialism

To impose neo-colonialism

it was necessary to divide the continent

The unity of America was destroyed.

Canning's diplomacy balkanized the South of the continent

The Yankee empire then completed his work in the North and Center.

The colonial ambitions of the two great empires

were satisfied with Latin American blood...

from Mexico to the river Plate

One people was pitted against another

one province against another

In less than a century, 20 nations emerged

from what had been four viceroyalties

The Monroe Doctrine and the big stick

legalised open aggression against the continent.

In less than a century the United States

carried out 41 armed interventions in Latin America.

Today the impunity of such aggressions

Is guaranteed by the O.A.S. (Organization of American States)

Balkanization first, pan-Americanism today

Both are aspects of a single policy: Neo-colonialism.

2: THE COUNTRY

Argentina: Over 4 million square kilometers of surface area

and 2,800,000 of continental surface area

A long triangle that could hold Spain, Italy, England, France,

Germany, Belgium, Poland Holland, Czechoslovakia,

Austria, Denmark, Bulgaria, Hungary.

From the Antarctic to the Tropical Forest, all climates

Immense untapped natural resources

A million square kilometers of woodland.

Four thousand Kilometers of ocean coastline.

A million square kilometers of continental shelf

La Pampa, the most famous prairies in the world.

A country that produces 8 million calories of energy per capita.

that consumes 10 million and needs many more

but exploits barely 3% of its water power

and 10% of its arable land.

An immense country, practically deserted

23 million inhabitants, of which 70% crowded in the cities

45% in only one of its 23 provinces Buenos Aires

where 60% of industry is concentrated

and the proletariat.

In the federal capital, the population exceeds

24 thousand inhabitants per square kilometer.

While in Patagonia, the ratio, is less than 2 per square kilometer.

In it's socio economic structure, Argentina is the country

that least resembles the rest of Latin America, It is proportionally the most industrialised.

Its rural population is the smallest, The percentage of middle class citizens

and the living standard are among the highest.

Its working class is unionized.

Its intellectuals are many and brilliant

but perhaps the least Latin American on the continent.

This country often called >>

"Ranch" country" "Cannery" country, "Breadbasket of the World"

is for the Oligarchy the product of three factors: English gold

Italian hands... French culture.

3: DAILY VIOLENCE

THE VIOLENCE VISITED ON THE LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLES

IS A CONSTANT, PLANNED, SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE

I am a worker, one of the sacrificed I have always worked, even on Sunday.

Now there isn't any work....

Many factories are closing...

The government told the police to surround the building...

When they found out I had been a union delegate...

A DAILY VIOLENCE

TO DOMINATE MAN,NAPALM AND POISON GAS ARE NOT YET NECESSARY

THERE IS AN INFINITY OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL MEANS

JUST AS EFFECTIVE AS ARMIES

Sure, I'm afraid of losing my job.

Think of your family, like me.

The police killed three of our friends...

They fired me because when Peron tell...

..they changed the whole personnel

They were shooting at us, not in the air!

The police kept the doors under guard

Persecution in the factory

NEO-COLONIAL VIOLENCE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PUT INTO PRACTICE

IT IS ENOUGH FOR IT TO EXIST POTENTIALLY

OUR WAR IS THE PEACE, THE ORDER, THE NORMALITY OF THE SYSTEM

75% of Argentine workers cannot satisfy their basic needs with what they earn.

The buying power of wages

has fallen by 40% in recent years.

Working hours for wage-earners

have risen to 11 hours a day.

Our country has one million farm workers

but only half have a permanent job.

Latin America, out of a surface area of 20 million square kilometers

only 6% of arable land is under cultivation

The latifundio :50% of the land,

is in the hands of 1.5% of the landowners,

while 80% of the population has no land at all.

90% of the rural population lives in shacks and hovels

no different from pre-Colombian times

Electricity, drinking water are lacking, and so is common sanitation.

This is the breeding ground of malnutrition, disease, and hunger.

In Argentina, there are 900 thousand abandoned children.

In the rural zones, of every 100 babies,70 are illegitimate.

Of every 10 babies born alive, 4 die.

In Brazil: 43% of the infant population dies of hunger,

300 thousand a year.

More children die of malnutrition every year, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

40% of the urban population

lives in absolute promiscuity.

In Buenos Aires and surrounding areas,

800 thousand people live in sub-standard housing.

45 million Latin Americans lives resigned to poverty,

in slums and shanty towns, "corventillos, villas miserias" favelas, ranchardas, cantegriles

In Argentina: one million cases of syphilis,

One and a half million cases of tuberculosis

Two million cases of "mal de chagas".

In Latin America, the average worker's income

Is 20 times less than that of the upper classes.

For 110 million people (half the population)

income does not reach 120 dollars a year,

Ten dollars a month, -Thirty cents a day.

If the present rate of development continues, the Argentines...

will have to wait 70 years

to reach the yearly income of today's Frenchman...

and 200 years to reach that of today's American.

"High in the Heavens"

"a warrior eagle"

"Wings boldly upward"

"in triumphant flight"

"Blue one wing"

"the color of the sea"

"The other blue wing"

"the color of the sky"

"Hovering high above"

"Radiant dawn"

"arrow's point"

"it imitates the golden face"

"and forms a wake in the purple sky"

"The wing is the patio"

"The eagle is the flag"

"it is the flag"

"of my country"

"born of the sun"

"which God gave me"

4: THE PORT CITY

Buenos Aires nerve center of neo colonial politics,

White city in a half-breed America

City built at the expense of the whole country.

7 million inhabitants 1 million foreigners.

The biggest city in Latin America.

The fifth in the world.

Buenos Aires: appendage of the great metropolises.

Here a " gaucho" is as exotic as in Paris, London, or New York .

City of executives and professional people.

of the caretakers of neo-colonial interests,

overseers of the settlers.

Cradle of the vast middle class which once used,

and protected by the Oligarchy,

now thrashes about more defenselessthan ever before .

The petty bourgeoisie: snivels over an upset world.

For it, the country is intolerable, but unchangeable.

Change is necessary, but impossible.

Deeply attached to its own status and prestige,

but quick to follow the latest European fashions

the latest European fashions.

Satisfied by edifying speeches, by psychologists,

and moralizing TV programs.

Buenos Aires: city that turns its back on the country,

In the huge Rio de la Plata.

Here the statues inspire more distrust than awe.

Seat of government of the curia,

of the press, of Army headquarters,

and 80% of the country's gangsters.

Here the interest in life of the nation is concentrated.

Here monuments have been raised to the man who said:

"These provinces want to belong to England"

"to obey it's laws, be subject to it's government

"Live under it's powerful influence" CARLOS MARIA DE ALVEAR

5: THE OLIGARCHY

2 million 500 thousand, 2 million 500 thousand...

Prize champion two-year-old

Excellent quality, wonderful expression...

very male, powerful, well-boned...

A bull of the San Juan type, with all the qualities

A bull that belongs to the modern line.

On sale here, Pereira's prize champion two year old..

We have an offer of 2 million pesos.

Agrarian Argentine society,

the traditional center of our Oligarchy.

Here they are the 50 families of Buenos Aires

who have taken over ten million acres of land

One family, the Braum Menendez Behetys, owns 15 million acres. Here they are

2% of the cattlemen, own 40% of the livestock.

Barely 5% of the active population

which every year makes off with 42% of national income.

The owners of the country!

Yesterday clinging to the one-crop system and English capital.

today associated with the industrial bourgeoisie

and American financial capital.

87 million acres

in the hands of foreign corporations.

Our ancestors built the country's greatness,

Furthermore, you see, our aristocracy. in many ways resembles the European.

I remember once in London, guest of Lord Grifford.

speaking of our aristocracy

he himself compared it to the Polish nobility.

As in the case of one of the Carcano girls.

who married Lord Astor.

And then the other girl, Janita Diaz.

the foundling they adopted, who married the Duke of Luin.

We don't really have much money.

Today we're as worthless.

as a businessman who sells cloth.

And yet we have lived drinking mate

with "espinillo" or "tala" wood.

Because at one time we had soldiers, who were great civilians.

I want you to know that General Mitre translated Dante.

wrote poetry and was a well-known journalist.

who invented the paper "la Nacion"

General Rocca was also a highly educated man.

And General Augustin P Justo, who few remember

Had the best library of Argentine history in the country.

What do these modern folks know?

Up to a year ago you could go to Punta del Est. But now?

Last year it was already unbearable. There wasn't a corner not full of upstarts!

I'd like to live in the United States.

There, if you want to go out somewhere, you find thousands of places to go, things to see

For example, you walk around Paris. and Paris really...

if the French built it, It's already a demonstration.

et to know Klee, and at least 3 of Miller's works.

and Saint-John Perse and Antonio Artaud

and abstract and concrete art, Pop and Op.

Really it's unbelievable.

She takes these country girls into the house to work

and last time she gave them a mattress of my sister's

Within two days she's burned it. Now she makes her sleep on the floor.

Present, the government

really intend to straighten things out.

That's what the people need.

During all these years, the General Confederation of Labour

promised things and gathered in the money.

This General Confederation of Labour is a huge enterprise.

It's actually a very powerful bank.

But what does it do with all that money. Nothing!

The Union delegates go around in cars and silk suits

and if you meet one on the street dressed like that, well they're just like hicks.

You can't compare them

with a boy from a good family

raised in a prep school, Saint George's for example,

who associates with human circles,

ethic circles, that�s the right word ethic!.

He grows with a Christian conception

of the family and society.

you can�t compare him with one of those sorts.

They're completely uncultured individuals. Downright illiterate..

Generally, they either learn to write

or get someone else to write their speeches.

They feel themselves foreigners in their own country.

They are recalling their golden years. La Belle �poque !

Here They are,. Yesterday they boasted of their Spanish descent

today, of their ties with Europe and the United States.

Here they are. In the name of liberalism,

They have exterminated the native population.,

They have turned the country into a blood bath many times.

Here they are. Guilty of the violence daily visited on the people.

much to the frustration of many generations of Argentines.

This is their cemetery.

To crystallize history.

To stop time.

To take the past as a future.

This is the dream of the Oligarchy.

6: THE SYSTEM

The Vietnamese has only to raise his head

to find the enemy.

For us, it is infinitely more difficult.

Neo-Colonialism speaks our same language,

has our same skin colour,our nationality

our religion.

It is not easy to recognize the enemy.

Working in Argentina, he operates with

the greatest possibility to manoeuvre.

There would be no neo-colonialism, If internal power factors

did not make it possible.

In our country, these factors,

are today the agrarian Oligarchy and the big industrial bourgeoisie.

The armed forces coordinate

and legalize the policy.

The interests of all converge under a single sign:

The system.

The system

An internal enemy that throws open the country's doors

to neo-colonial penetration.

Courtesy missions arrive in every city.

Hundreds of "Peace Corps" organizations Infiltrate the rural areas.

Missionaries of all religions

swarm over the remotest parts of every country.

Scholarships and loans are freely awarded,

and subsidies to universities, unions and intellectuals.

A common goal unites this infiltration:

The corruption of the national consciousness.

to facilitate the domination of the country.

we must unconditionally respect promises

made by our allies,

to maintain their military presence

unequalled service to the stabilisation of the dollar,

to extend our overseas investment,

to promote our programs of help and collaboration

in Asia and Africa, and to reinforce

Allies favorable to the progress of our hemisphere.

7: POLITICAL VIOLENCE

The Latin American peoples have no chance of changing their lot

through the institutions of bourgeois democracy.

of 20 governments, 17 are the product of rigged elections,

or coups d'etat.

For 12 years now, the Argentine people have lived politically outlawed.

Their majority movement, Peronism, is illegal.

Their leader, condemned to exile.

The goal the Latin American pursues,

in his fight for liberation, is the restitution of his humanity,

that humanity which neo-colonialism constantly denies him

N�O-RAClSM

The man of a dependant country will always be for dominant nations,

a segregated man, an underdeveloped man,

a subhuman.

of a colonized country

implies direct forms of racism.

In the dependant, neo-colonized countries,

the forms of discrimination are more subtle,

but just as effective.

The Argentine Oligarchy has on many occasions ,

enforced them in the course of history.

Following Sarmiento's motto: "Civilization of barbarity"

the first national form of resistance was crushed,

in the massacre of "the Monorena".

Consequently, an anti-national, foreign civilization was imposed.

Yesterday 'gauchos' or 'montoneros'

'crilleros' or 'chusmas'

Today 'descaminados' or 'grasa'

and to a certain extent ' mersa'.

Without question,

The people have always been denied a human dignity.

In certain rural zones of the country

racism can do without the niceties

it uses in the cities and operate out in the open.

The Indian is worth nothing.

And it's not true because we all have the same blood.

We have the same blood, but speak a different language.

That's why you see me naked,

About us, the 'criollos' years ago

didn't even bother themselves.

Nobody helped us.

until today.

We used to go around with the dogs,

looking for the means to stay alive.

Or we would take an empty can and go down the river to fish.

That was our whole life.

Nobody helped us...

because the Indian was worthless.

Only a Christian had value.

Now they think they treat us like brothers

because they have had to accept their own religion.

They thought they could be done with us

that the Indian was worthless.

Just like that without any reason.

And yet we have the same blood and walk like them.

But will the colonizer ever admit

that the blood of the man he has colonized is the same as his?

Here, in a vast region of the country,

men, women, individuals do not exist.

There are only the survivors of the ancient Indian tribes,

the 'mataco' , the 'coya' the 'chulupie'.

Names that in the mouth of the master deny the victim of exploitation his condition as a man.

80% of the Argentine native population

has tuberculosis and syphilis

They remain men, or potential men, who flee the movie camera

to avoid the 'criollo' or the white man.

Interiorized, but not convinced of their inferiority.

Men who hardly speak, who hardly sing.

9: DEPENDANCE

THOSE WHO LIVE IN RUEAL AREAS SAY

THERE ARE MOUNTAINS WHERE THEY MINE ENDLESS GOLD.

The thing that characterizes the Latin American countries Is their dependence.

Economic dependence, political dependence, cultural dependence.

First Spain, then England,

now the United States.

The history of our countries is the history of an endless colonial sack.

Political independence does not exist without economic independence.

Jose Marti said:

"A people that wants to be free must first be free in business".

"Dependence does not permit any possible development,"

The apparent development of a few cities like Buenos Aires

only translates the growing expansion of the great powers within our economy.

Yesterday, Mitre, Pellegrini, Pinedo,

Today Prebisch, Prigerio, Alsogray.

Loans and investments,

have always been part of the same politics of subjection.

So called imperialist aid

Is an aid that always costs

he who receives it more than he who gives it.

For every dollar invested in Latin America,

imperialism gets back four.

Gold and coffee, meat and oil

grain and tin:

the labour of a people reduced to cheap manpower,

has built the wealth of the great powers.

In this exploitation lies the cause of the backwardness,

poverty and oppression,

that in turn guarantee the financing

and prosperity of the rich nations,

lies the origin of that obscure word invented by imperialism:

Underdevelopment

EVERYDAY WE EXPORT MORE, AND GET BACK THE SAME.

EVERYDAY WE WORK MORE, AND GET BACK THE SAME.

ARGENTINA'S FOREIGN DEBT IS SIX BILLION DOLLARS.

THE FOREIGN MONOPOLIES AND THEIR LOCAL ALLIES

CONTROL ALMOST ALL THE NATIONAL ECONOMY.

al the meat industry, energy, oil.

cereal commerce, the chemical industry the production of cellulose,

70% of tungsten, 92% of lead, 98% of zinc

Money, Gold

also press agencies and the mass media.

10: CULTURAL VIOLENCE

The majority of the population in Brazil,

in Bolivia, in Peru, in Venezuela,

in Guatemala, Nicaragua,

in Haiti, the Dominican republic, is illiterate,

70 million people. A third of the Latin American population

does not know how to read and write.

Illiteracy and educational colonization, go hand in hand

In an openly colonized country,

ideological penetration is not necessary.

But in a semi colonized country,

ideological penetration plays an essential role.

It destroys in the people the idea of a nation,

and institutionalizes and normalizes dependence.

The primary goal of ideological penetration is to keep the people

from becoming aware, from understanding their

neo-colonialized position, and from wanting to change it.

In this form, educational colonization

effectively replaces the colonial police.

The middle social strata of the population

are the carriers of neo-colonial ideology.

The university the principal instrument of this colonization.

Behind the myth of academic freedom,

generations of students have been led to believe

that the university an island of democracy within an oppressed nation.

The university

is an organ of existing political power,

designed to mould minds suited to the system.

Behind the farce of academic freedom,

are hidden the ideologies that legalize Dependence:

the philosophy of the one-crop economy liberalism,

trade, neo-colonial development, technocratism.

All authentically national thought

has been censured or simply ignored.

Thus an intelligentsia has grown up

that has no ties with the people or the reality of the country.

Now lets visit the Pepsi Cola Salon.

Here Manuel Mujica Lainez,

member of the Argentine Academy of Letters

member of the National Academy of Fine Arts is presenting his latest book:

"Royal Chronicles"

Mujica Latinez was recently awarded the "Kennedy" Prize

and before that the National Literature Prize

the Municipal Prize, the Gerchunoff Prize,

and the Pen Club Prize

and the Writer's Society Prize

the most important award hereabouts

and the Gold Medal of the Italian Government

and the decoration of the French writers

and many other awards of the 'Gerchunhoff' type that I really don't remember.

Have you been influenced by European culture?

Yes, a great deal. I am a man of European formation.

Even as a child I received a classical formation.

For that matter, I've done some translations.

impossible without such a preparation,

It's not just a matter of knowing English.

but of capturing the Elizabethan spirit.

Where would you like to live? In Venice, always,

to the very last moment. I'd like to live there forever.

Here everything is complicated.

There everything is easier.

All those kids when they have a vacation

they hop on a train and go to

Venice, or Vienna, Madrid, Paris

wherever they please. They're so close to everything!

We're so far away.

so out of place!

This opinion is shared by an intelligentsia subordinated to neo-colonial power

An elite that translates into Spanish,

the ideology of the oppressor countries. for the petit-bourgeois intellectuals.

A hybrid, depersonalized elite,,

always hiding behind something apoliticism or objectivism

indifference or intelligence.

11: THE MODELS

NOTHING IS MORE LOGICAL AMONG US THAN A RACIST HUMANISM,

SINCE THE EUROPEAN HAS ONLY BEEN ABLE TO BECOME A MAN

BY CREATING SLAVES AND MONSTERS

COMRADES, LET US NOT HONOUR EUROPE

BY CREATING STATES,INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETIES IN ITS IMAGE.

HUMANITY EXPECTS MORE FROM US THAN THIS CARICATURAL

AND GENERALLY OBSCENE IMITATION.

As soon as he learns to read,

a child in a dependant country

is assailed by all the models of a civilization

he is forced to accept as a single, universal value

Universalizing themselves as a class and system,

the bourgeoisie and imperialism

universalize the culture that supports their domination.

Behind the myth of a universal culture

they have hidden, in Latin America, their interests as a colonial class.

Hegel said:

"The best thing a child can do with his toys is break them".

But breaking down these values,

in which one has believed since childhood,

To maintain itself, neo-colonialism

needs to convince the people of their inferiority.

Sooner or later, inferior man

will recognize Man with a capital M,

And this recognition will mark the collapse of all his defenses.

If you really want to be a man,

says the oppressor

you must be like me, speak my language,

deny your essence, alienate yourself in me.

Neo-colonized man, the intellectual, the artist

have value only when they are recognized by the metropolis.

The paternalism of European culture

conceals the deeply rooted racism of the colonizing powers.

As early as the XVII Century, Jesuit missionaries praised

the extraordinary ability of the native in copying European works of art.

Copyist, translator, interpreter,

at best, spectator.

Neo-colonized man will always be led

to leave his own creative capacities untapped.

Far from assimilating and transforming

the values of other cultures to build his own,

he gives up all efforts at research and invention.

The result is inhibition, uprooting,

escapism, cultural cosmopolitanism,

artist imitation, the betrayal of the country.

The model of a universal man,

with universal values, Universal culture,

will always win out

over historical and class values.

CULTURE WILL BECOME A UNIVERSAL FACT AT THE SERVICE OF ALL MEN

WHEN WE HAVE DESTROYED AT THE UNIVERSAL LEVEL

IMPERIALISM AND CLASS SOCIETY WHEN WE HAVE UNIVERSALIZED

THE COMPLETE LIBERATION OF MAN

Christ touched the sick,

the dead eyes of the blind, and made them see.

He touched the ears of the deaf and made them hear.

He put his hands on the cripple

and they got up and walked.

The dead came back to life.

Good men of Jerusalem

unnail those two hands gently

all powerful, merciful

you will understand

like Veronicas

who understand all the suffering

of humanity!

I see the gentleman has a ring on his finger.

A metal ring,

And his tie? It is green.

any question you want to ask her. She'll receive you in private,

because naturally, there�re questions that can't be answered in public

Madam Diana will offer ten free consultations.

Now you can ask her a free question.

Anyone who has problems, about money, love, health

If you have no money, Ask away. Madam Diana will answer free.

All you need is

faith and hope.

I see the gentleman has taken the 7 of spades.

The 7 of spades means he's not well he's depressed.

All he has to do is ask me about it.

"Soledad! I've finally made Pepito confess"

Now I�m going to the police They'll know I�m innocent

"Mamma! My luck has finally turned!"

Priests, fortune tellers, faith healers, counselors,

astrologers, professors of morals,

Between the system and the people,

there is a network of persons whose task is to sow confusion.

Neo-colonial violence thus also takes on sublimated forms.

God, Fate, destiny, Immortality

are made to seem responsible

for a situation created by the ruling classes.

12: IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE

In Latin America, the war is waged principally

in the minds of men.

Ideological frontiers replace conventional ones.

The means of mass communication replace conventional weapons.

For neo-colonialism, mass communications

are more effective than Napalm.

An army of psychologists, sociologists

motivational analysts

try to divide and conquer the trade unions

political and student organizations

The popular movements are suffocated or slandered,

their leaders smeared.

Films, magazines, the radio and periodicals

try to de-politicize the people,

to spread skepticism and escapism.

Prejudices and complexities are developed against everything native.

People are taught to think in English.

ALL MEANS OF MASS COMMUNICATION

ARE CONTROLLED BY THE C.I.A.

CENSORSHIP ABD IDEOLOGICAL REPRESSION ARE TOTAL

REALITY,

TRUTH,

REASON

ARE,

LIKE THE PEOPLE,

ON THE EDGE OF THE LAW.

ARTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS ARE INTEGRATED INTO THE SYSTEM.

VIOLENCE,

CRIME,

DESTRUCTION

BECOME

PEACE,

ORDRER

NORMALITY

I am a man of European formation

universal, cosmic

We not are citizens of a country, but of the world.

humanity, peace, love.

The 7 of Spades means he's not well

Ethic , that's the right word , ethic

Abstract art, pop and hop,

MONSTROSITY DISGUISED AS BEAUTY

13: THE CHOICE

The Latin American peoples

are condemned peoples.

Neo-colonialism does not permit them to choose

either their own life or their own death.

Life and death both bear the mark of daily violence.

This is our war.

Of hunger, of curable diseases of premature age...

4 people a minute die in Latin America.,

5,500 a day., 2 million a year.

This is our war!

A genocide that in 15 years,

in the First world war.

What is the only thing left for the Latin American?

To choose through rebellion his own life.

and his own death.

For the man who dies in the struggle for liberation

death is no longer the end.,

It becomes an act of liberation, a conquest.

The man who chooses his own death

is also choosing his own life.

He is already life and liberation itself...

In his revolutionary action, the Latin American

recovers his existence.

The end of "Neocolonialism and violence", First part of the film

The hour of the Furnaces X 2nd part "The time of liberation",

3rd part "Violence and liberation",

The accounts of the Argentine people

during the 20 years preceding 1967.