Chavez and "kidnap Express"

Via Raw Story, I read a very interesting article in the British newspaper, The Independent about "The Kidnap Express" a new Venezuelan movie.

This passage in the article reminded me of a conversation we had with our Venezuelan friend Nere who argued the same point:

But Jakubowicz believes the most important reason he has become a focus of attacks from Mr Chavez's supporters is that his film seeks to suggest that a solution to the challenges facing Venezuela will only be found when rich and poor find a way of coming together. "[The film suggests] reaching a point of saying 'Let's fix the problem' and 'What can I do to help you and what can you do to help me. [The government is] really against all that. They need the constant struggle and the constant hatred."

It is conventional wisdom that Chavez has not made things better for the poor- however there may be hard statistics showing that that is not true:

indeed, a recent report by the Washington-based Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) suggested that the poverty rate in Venezuela fell from around 50 per cent when Mr Chavez took office in February 1999 to less than 44 per cent at the end of last year.....Even the Economist magazine, a strident critic of Mr Chavez, was this week forced grudgingly admit that he has "finally created some health and education programmes for the urban poor. At last poverty is falling". The magazine never asks what Mr Chavez's predecessor, Rafael Caldera, did for the nation's poor.

I tried to find out if the movie was coming here- but I couldn't find any info.