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By Alison Gillmor
DEPENDING on who's talking, controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is either a hero of the people or a threat to Latin American stability, an inspirational revolutionary or a dangerous demagogue.
Whatever you might think of his politics, you can't deny that the man understands the grand gesture.
In 2005, Chavez gave out one million free copies of Cervantes' 17th-century work Don Quixote to ordinary Venezuelan citizens. (Hard to imagine Stephen Harper doing this.)
Quebec filmmaker Charles Gervais uses the Cervantes reference to structure a comprehensive but somewhat stilted documentary look at Chavez's political experiment,...