Bolivia Documentary

The Nation has a review on a new documentary, Our Brand is Crisis that is on the 2002 presidential race. It features Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni) and his hired consultants from the firm Greenberg Carville Shrum. In an "absurdly funny" film Our Brand is Crisis provides a view of democracy in a chaotic country.

As Our Brand Is Crisis makes clear, with its scenes of chaos following Goni's squeak to victory, elections ought to be about something more than steaming up people's emotions, venting the pressure and then hoping the populace will simmer down again, so the work of capital markets may go on undisturbed.