South of the BorderSouth of the Border is a 2009 documentary
film directed by Oliver Stone.  The documentary premiered at the
2009 Venice Film Festival. Writer for the project Tariq Ali
calls the documentary a political road movie.  Stone stated that
he hopes the film will help people better understand a leader
who is wrongly ridiculed as a strongman, as a buffoon, as a
clown.  The film has Stone and his crew travel from the
Caribbean down the spine of the Andes in an attempt to explain
the phenomenon of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and account
for the continent's pink tide leftward tilt.   In addition to
Chávez, Stone sought to flesh out several other Latin American
presidents whose policies and personalities generally get
limited, or according to Stone, biased media attention in the
United States and Europe, notably: Evo Morales of Bolivia;
Cristina Kirchner and former president Nestor Kirchner of
Argentina; Rafael Correa of Ecuador; Raúl Castro of Cuba;
Fernando Lugo of Paraguay; and Lula da Silva of