Jay's Way

In the documentary South Of The Border, Oliver Stone, who's created other films lionizing thuggish left-wing leaders, has turned his sights on Latin America--in particular, Hugo Chavez. Reviews make it sounds like it's exactly what you'd expect. What surprised me was this paragraph in Variety from critic Jay Weissberg:

Stone’s thrust -- that Intl. Monetary Fund policy, backed by the Bush administration, was designed to keep Latin America subservient to their big, bad neighbor up north -- is largely inarguable. Venezuela’s economic disparities, thanks to its enormous oil reserves, are among the more obvious examples of self-interested U.S. policy, dictated by the need to control access to cheap petroleum. Yet Stone doesn’t explain how that’s worked for the last 100 years.

Sure, there are lots of critics of the IMF and of American foreign policy, but Jay Weissberg--who takes Stone to task for not giving the full picture--makes these assertions as if he's simply being factual. I'd say he's flat-out wrong about a few things, but at the very least he should acknowledge his claims are controversial.