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Five Factoriesprovides a penetrating look at the Bolivarian socioeconomic project designed to challenge the dominant neo-liberal development model.

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.

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.

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...

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.

It's got more oil than any country on the planet but its people eat garbage and gangsters rule. Defying a media ban, Eric Campbell goes undercover in the onetime socialist idyll of Venezuela.

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.

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,...

This episode looks at state violence, state complicity in the execution of their own people and highlights how young, black males are singled out, targeted and quite often shot. This militarism is becoming the norm as a way of dealing with the poor. Nine people, all victims of violence and their relatives, all from the favelas of Sao Paulo, reflect on how police violence has shaped their lives.

The massacre in Bojayá in 2002 remains one of the worst mass atrocities during the Colombian conflict. Caught in the crossfire between AUC paramilitaries and FARC guerillas, 119 civilians were killed. Leyner Palacios was one of the few survivors. This documentary follows his story as he organized disparate local communities in Chocó to fight for their basic human rights. His tireless efforts led him to represent Bojayá massacre victims during...