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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....
4) One Love
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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.
5) Exaudi
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A recording of the Exaudi Chamber Choir singing Cuban and Latin-American folk songs.
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Uruguayan President Jose Mujica refused to stay in the luxurious presidential state house, instead opting to stay at his wife's farmhouse on the outskirts of Montevideo. His unorthodox administration oversaw the legalization of recreational cannabis use in 2013. Correspondent Paeder King visits the president, cannabis users and everyday citizens to assesswhether legalization is working in this South American country.
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Hispanic people are the fastest-growing minority in the U.S. What does it mean to be Latino and American? Hispanics journey to the United States from different homelands and the experience of being a Latino in a flourishing ethnic neighborhood of a big city contrasts with the isolation of living in a small town. Despite sharing aspects of a common heritage, the Hispanic community have varying concerns about a large spectrum of subjects, including...
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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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In 2002, three Americans traveled to Cuba under the U.S. Government's People-to-People exemption of the Trading With the Enemy Act, which at the time allowed for educational and cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Cuba. Their original purpose had been to avoid the more than forty years of political drama inherent to American-Cuban relations, and instead immerse themselves in the vibrant musical culture of Cuba, an impoverished island with which...
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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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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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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.
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The story of a Mexican-American standup comedian whose specialty is making fun of ethnic stereotypes. He is Tiofilo Duartes and the novel describes how--to survive--he is forced to stoop to this form of comedy.
The Aztec Love God is a dark comedy about Tiofilio Duarte's climb to obscurity. Originally, young Tio wanted to perfect the comic role of the Aztec Love God, his ideal persona. Along the way, he meets Jester, an older, Caucasian comedian who...
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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.
19) Cocalero
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Born out of the U.S. war on drugs, an Aymara Indian named Evo Morales - backed by a troop of coca leaf farmers - travels through the Andes and Amazon in jeans and sneakers, leading a historic bid to become Bolivia's first Indigenous president. The filmmakers, granted astonishing up close and personal access to Evo, capture the intimate moments of this controversial figure and his triumphant rise to power. A story of geopolitics, people's movements,...
20) Fatherland
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La Recoleta Cemetery rests in the heart of one of Buenos Aires' swankiest neighborhoods. A city-within-a-city, it is an inward-facing place with its own interior geography. Like the Père-Lachaise graveyard in France, La Recoleta is the final resting place for key figures of its nation's history: statesmen and poets, founding fathers and oppositional voices. And with Argentina's history so fraught with unrest, this relationship between the necropolis,...
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