Chabuki watch #8
This part of the play was surely directed by Oliver Stone to try and emulate Roman Polanski and Steven Spielberg. Can an Oscar for Chávez be far away?
"I am not an anti-semite. I have nothing against Jewish people. Nobody can say my government persecutes Jews … Revolutionaries cannot be anti-semitic … Jews are Venezuelan too, so for them, my respect."
And with this dramatic fell swoop of the hand, all this was swept away under the rug.
Por ahora.
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