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Series
Empire Builders volume 0
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country in Europe and divided the country with a class system which still impacts today. After the conquest Mexico became the world’s largest producer of silver which provided eagerly sought exchange for Europe’s trade with Asia. Meantime, conquistadors and friars spread out along so called “royal roads “which linked new with the desert frontiers...
2) Borderland
Series
Borderland volume 0
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Gathered at the Pima County Morgue, in Arizona and tasked by the medical examiner Dr. Greg Hess, six American volunteers set out to retrace the footsteps of three migrants who died while crossing the border from Mexico. The six American’s embark on an arduous and often heart-breaking journey to Guatemala, El Salvador and Chiapas, southern Mexico, but only after they first explore illegal immigration on the US side of the border. They join a local...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The country's severe economic crisis has created widespread corruption and goods shortages, leaving many families without basic essentials. Those who want to expose the dire health care situation are afraid to speak and the government sees the press reporting on it as the enemy.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Reverend Rick Frechette went to Haiti 25 years ago on a religious mission to shelter families "broken by tragedy." In his mid-40s, he decided to become a doctor and built a modern pediatric medicine facility. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports as part of our Agents for Change series on the challenges Frechette has faced.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Caracas is the most urbanized city in the most urbanized country in the most urbanized region of the world. Nine-three percent of the population of the country live in urban areas. The city has a population of 2.1 million and 5.1 million depending on where the boundary is drawn. The boundary keeps shifting outwards and upwards. And the city continues to draw people in not just from within Venezuela and neighboring countries but also from The Caribbean...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
El Salvador's prisons are bloody, brutal, and overcrowded. With 700 arrests a day, that level of overcrowding shows no signs of abating. And they have one of the highest homicides rates in the world. But rather than give up on prisons and prisoners, the people who are running the prison service have decided to change tack and reform the system. Their response is Yo Cambio. First change: the language. No longer referred to as inmates or prisoners now...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
At $3 an hour, the workers at the Alta Gracia garment factory in the Dominican Republic are earning enough to feed a family of five. But after three years, this new, living wage-based business model has yet to turn a profit as global competition has pushed thousands of jobs to lower-cost countries. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America, ravaged by the drug trade, political instability and the highest murder rate in the world. It may seem like the last place on earth where businesses would want to invest, but a new idea is underway. Some call it a Startup City or Free City, others a LEAP Zone, and in Honduran law it's known as a ZEDE. They are politically autonomous, privately run zones that supporters believe...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through intimate interviews with some of those closest to him including his eldest son Flávio, former government ministers, as well as his opponents, explore Bolsonaro’s brilliant yet ruthless journey to the presidency, with high-stakes drama, guns and God.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Paraguay’s official submission for Documentary and International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, this documentary tells the story of Mateo Sobode Chiqueno who walks across communities in the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region to record the stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people.
Series
Empire Builders volume 0
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Inca were one of the world's largest civilizations of the late Middle Ages until their conquest by the Spanish in 1533 in modern-day Peru and surrounding countries. The center was in Cusco in the Peruvian Highlands, and the Incas expanded into the largest pre-Columbian kingdom in the Americas, spreading across a diverse selection of climates such as the highlands of the Andes, plateaus, and jungles. This became the world's only mountain empire,...
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