MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Oliver Stone adds glamour to “South American revolution”

US film maker and director Oliver Stone working on a project on Latinamerican leaders interviewed on Wednesday in Buenos Aires Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who praised the initiative as “a different version of what is happening here”.

The interview in the Olivos presidential residence also marked the return of the Argentine leader to her agenda of activities after having spent almost a week resting on medical orders recovering from what was diagnosed as lipotimia and dehydration. Stone is working on a documentary "the revolution in South America" with interviews to the most notorious "Socialist or left leaning" leaders of the continent, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez; Cuba's Raul Castro; Evo Morales in Bolivia; Rafael Correa in Ecuador and on Tuesday Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, a former catholic bishop. "It's an excellent idea that a film director of the prestige and performance of Oliver Stone should be interested in de-coding and interpreting what is happening in this region and give the world a different version of what is going on", said Mrs. Kirchner next to the US director. She added that Stone's project will help contribute "to translate what is happening in the world, particularly in those countries where everything is on doubt and what seemed universal paradigms no longer are such". Mrs. Kirchner said that the project should help the US citizen to beware of what he's been taught or told about the history of the region, "particularly in certain schools and academia circles who think they know everything but can't work out what is going on". In Paraguay the director of "Platoon" spent two hours with President Lugo talking about the former bishop's life, his new job and the Latinamerican political scenario. A spokesperson for the presidential palace in Asunción said Mr. Stone and President Lugo would not be making statements of the interview. However the spokesperson pointed out that "there's a consensus which sees the president aligned with a progress-related position currently prevalent in several countries of the continent, but the talks did not focus on this issue or the ideologies of our leaders, but rather in their performance and opinion of the development of other political processes in the continent". Bishop Lugo has always been linked to the so called Liberation Theology of certain groups inside the Catholic Church. Stone has directed three Oscar winning films, "Midnight Express" (1978); "Platton", (1989) and "Born 4th of July", (1989). In 2004 he presented a documentary "looking for Fidel", a French-Spanish production with 30 hours of interviews with the ailing Cuban leader.