Montezuma's Revenge

We all know the story of Montezuma’s Revenge. Here are a few movies decrying colonialism in Latin America and the impact US politics has had in the Americas. If there is a beginning point, Que Viva Mexico! is as good a place to start as any. This is Sergei Eisenstein’s opus to the Mexican Revolution, which he did in conjunction with Upton and Mary Sinclair in the 1930s.

It is worth looking at this impasse in both a historical and contemporary sense. I...