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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
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
89) One Love
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This short film tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014. After fleeing torture and imprisonment by the Assad regime, he is rebuilding his life. Mohammed counsels newly-arrived Syrian refugee families with the same Vancouver-based NGO that aided him during his own resettlement process. Like Mohammed, these families have left loved ones behind and are struggling to adapt to a new land, finding resilience...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A classic story of David and Goliath made international headlines in 2002 when “David,” a Mapuche Indian, dared confront a multinational “Goliath” Luciano Benetton of United Colors of Benetton by reclaiming ancestral land that was part of the vast Benetton estates in Patagonia. United Colors of Benetton is known for its provocative political ads that promote racial harmony and is one of the largest landowners in Argentina. The case went to...
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
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Almost-eight-year-old" Ruby Lu spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends.
97) Rodzina
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
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