Oliver Stone wants to draw out America of its "ignorance"

STONE’S FILMS • Last night arrived Oliver Stone to Cochabmaba to show his film in which he recounts the process of change that are taking place in South America.

By EUGEN ROXAS

Cochabamba's Mayor gives a gift to Mr. Oliver Stone: a lluchu Photo © LA RAZON®. All rights reserved.

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia.— Minutes before the screening Stone gave a press conference. His first words of greeting were:

"I'm happy, it's my first time in this city that I heard a lot about the ‘water war’.”

About his film through a translator said:

"In the U.S. people are ignorant of the process being carried out, the people do not know anything about this."

Stone explained that the purpose of the film show the transformation processes occurred in Latin America in the last ten years.

President of Bolivia Juan Evo Morales Ayma and film maker Mr. Oliver Stone. Photo © ABI®. All rights reserved.

Retrieved what would recommend to President Evo Morales, Stone said he had to use alternative means such as the Internet, to get their message without passing through the filter of the mass media.

About 7,000 people attended the screening of the documentary among them were President Morales, the mayor Edwin Castellanos and the governor Edmundo Novillo.

“You are a donkey, mister Bush”.

Sentence pronounced by the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez in the documentary drew applause from the public.

Source: THE ACHACACHI POST^®