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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 1 sec.) ; 316291044 bytes |
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Raul Castells was born in Che Guevara's village and admires Che's convictions. In 2006, Castells opened a community kitchen to feed the city's poor, in the centre of Puerto Madero, the most affluent area in Buenos Aires. Local restaurant owners and patrons were non-plussed. Raul is a walking, talking, pushing, barging force of nature. Directed by David Bradbury, Raul The Terrible is a warts-and-all portrait of a man driven to change his world. The program is also an insight into the politics of poverty in twenty-first century Argentina.Raul fights the Argentinean Government; he fights big business; he invades buildings and occupies casinos; and he has good reason.In December 2001, there was a seismic shift in Argentina's economic and political landscape. The government devalued the currency and froze people's savings - effectively pushing the middle class into the even larger pool of unemployed working poor.Currently, in Argentina, there are twenty million people living below the poverty line. Twenty-five percent of children suffer malnutrition and of those, up to seventeen thousand die annually. The average Argentinean does not have a job, adequate housing or any means to provide for a family.Producer Carlos Alperin says that upper-and-middle-class Argentineans dislike Raul because he disturbs their way of life. "They try to avoid confronting their problems by simply ignoring them," he says. "They pretend that the Argentinean poor don't exist. So, if they don't exist they don't have to think about them." Raul forces them to confront the truth. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, in Spanish, English subtitles) |
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Broadcast 2007-02-08 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Americans -- Social conditions.
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Castells, Raul.
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Politics and government.
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Protest movements.
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Social movements -- Political aspects.
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Working class -- Economic conditions.
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Argentina.
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Streaming video
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Bradbury, David, director
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Peers, Lisa, cast
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