Evo Morales Says US Social Network Experts Plotted in Bolivia

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3. Our Brand Is Crisis

The documentary Our Brand Is Crisis pretty much lays out what Evo Morales describes. Which is using social media and other means to steal elections...

Another prime example of why the long-documented US position that "Latin America is our backyard" is so offensive and being rejected.

Cascadiance posted about a documentary that just knocked my socks off. We read about these things, we document them, we know it happens, but this documentary provides an inside look of the process.


In 2002, among the many creepy roles of James Carville was his work as strategist at Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS), when the political consultancy firm he had helped to found went to work to help Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (nicknamed “Goni”) win the hotly contested presidency of Bolivia. Although they thought the man to beat was Manfred Reyes Villa, the mayor of Cochabamba, certainly the one who most worried Washington was the indigenous leader, Evo Morales...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110814562

Watching season 3 of Leverage on dvd. In the commentary on the season finale the producer mentions that the documentary Our Brand Is Crisis served as inspiration for that episode.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110830449#post3

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017210366

More recently Our Brand Is Crisis got the Hollywood treatment. It was turned into mind-addling comedy with Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton.