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[2014]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 11 min., 22 sec)) : sound, color.
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What happens to Mexican deportees once they are sent back home? The amazing achievement of Sergio Tamai, founder of Angeles Sin Fronteras, who has created one of the most efficient shelters for the deported in Mexicali.
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[2014]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 0 min., 28 sec)) : sound, color.
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One dream. Two brothers. One continent. Two brothers follow their dream of surfing the American Pacific, showing the continent as a whole through its different cultures, villages, food, people, animals and landscapes while camping and surfing on their way back home to Argentina. After 403 days, 13 countries and nearly 20,000 miles camping and surfing along the American continent, from LA to southern Chile, they returned home.
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[2016]
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1 online resource (1 video file (25 min., 11 sec)) : sound, color.
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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...
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[2007]
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1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 32 sec)) : sound.
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Che Guevara died in southern Bolivia 40 years ago while trying to ignite the sparks of revolution throughout South America. His death at the hands of Bolivian Rangers, trained and financed by the US Government, marked the beginning of the cocaine era in Bolivia. Pressed by the masses who gave him a massive mandate, the first indigenous president, ex-coca leaf farmer Evo Morales has nationalized the oil industry and passed laws on agrarian reform....
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[2017]
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1 online resource (1 video file (3 min., 21 sec)) : sound, color.
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Mexico's government said Sunday that 318 people died from last week's major earthquake, including 180 people in Mexico City, where dozens of buildings collapsed. Outside the city, residents of rural towns and villages are assessing massive damage to their homes and businesses. NewsHour Correspondent William Brangham spoke with residents of several communities about what comes next.
7) One Love
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[2017]
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1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 34 sec)) : sound, color.
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Jamaica's rich music heritage got hijacked by a vicious and violent brand of homophobia. But along came a new generation of artists who, with a little help from the internet, are wresting it back.
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[2018]
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1 online resource (1 video file (6 min., 35 sec)) : sound, color.
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Since 2014, more than 250,000 unaccompanied minors have made a dangerous journey to the U.S. from Central America, with 40 percent coming from El Salvador, where jobs are scarce and gangs are rampant. One program, funded by U.S. government aid and private philanthropy, is supporting young people in San Salvador with leadership and job training. Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
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[2017]
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1 online resource (1 video file (16 min., 50 sec)) : sound, color.
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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.
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[2018]
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1 online resource (1 video file (7 min., 27 sec)) : sound, color.
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2017 marked Acapulco's fifth straight year of being Mexico's most murderous city. Once an internationally renowned tropical paradise, violence has shot up over the last decade. But while police and military forces protect tourists, residents say little is done to stop gangs from preying on them through extortion. Special correspondent Danny Gold reports.
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[2017]
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1 online resource (1 video file (9 min., 27 sec)) : sound, color.
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Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, Venezuela's economy is in a freefall, necessities have become scarce and tens of thousands of residents are fleeing across the border to Colombia. With support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Nadja Drost and videographer Bruno Federico report on the exodus.
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[2014]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 14 min., 7 sec)) : sound.
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A six-month trip by Gauchos del Mar brothers across the Patagonia region. New waves to surf, new friends, Patagonic culture, unique animals and a sailboat journey to the uninhabited Isla de los Estados.
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[2018]
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1 online resource (1 video file (7 min., 51 sec)) : sound, color.
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It's not part of Cancun that tourists travel to see: heavily armed police working to stop a soaring homicide rate. The fallout of Mexico's campaign targeting drug cartel leaders is spilling onto the periphery of the famous beach destination, where fractured gangs fight for control. Yet the area's violence has rarely put vacationers in danger. Special correspondent Danny Gold reports.
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[2016]
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1 online resource (1 video file (25 min., 11 sec)) : sound, color.
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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...
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[2014]
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1 online resource (1 video file (50 min., 23 sec)) : sound, color.
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The journey of discovery truly begins. In El Salvador, retired marine Randy Stufflebeam and liberal artist Alex Seel witness the immediate aftermath of a gangland shooting. It's that level of violence that drove "their" migrant Maira Zelaya to the US. In Guatemala, Washington state farmer Gary Larsen and Arkansas Republican staffer Alison Melder work the same mountainous coffee plantation that Omar Lopez, the 13-yearold boy whose story they track,...
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[2019]
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1 online resource (1 video file (29 min., 45 sec)) : sound.
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On September 19, 2017, a powerful 7.1 earthquake shook Mexico for about 20 seconds causing extensive damage in the Mexican states of Puebla, Morelos and Mexico City. The town of San Gregorio Atlapulco was one of the most devastated communities in Mexico. Children in the area were very vulnerable to post-traumatic stress. Community workers use art and poetry to help children cope with the trauma of the earthquake. Using art, the community is able...
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[2021]
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1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 46 sec)) : sound.
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This revelatory documentary about Raúl Castro profiles the man who knew how to make himself indispensable to the Cuban revolution. Legend has long wanted Raul Castro to be no more than the shadow of his brother Fidel. The documentary unveils this shadowy man, showing that he was, in fact, the main actor of the Cuban revolution, surviving the Cold War and the implosion of the USSR. It looks at his time as president of Cuba from 2008to 2018 and his...
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[2014]
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1 online resource (1 video file (49 min., 41 sec)) : sound, color.
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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...
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[2018]
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1 online resource (1 video file (6 min., 11 sec)) : sound, color.
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At a garment factory that makes T-shirts bearing the logos of American universities, about a fifth of the workers are high school dropouts. But if they want to keep their jobs, they'll need to do something about it. Special correspondent Fred De Sam Lazaro reports from El Salvador on the factory turned college pipeline that employs those normally left out of society, including ex-gang members.
