Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
Politics seduced many power-hungry drug traffickers in Colombia, and Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder were just two of the criminals who successfully burst onto the political scene.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
By acting like a kind of Robin Hood who helped the poor in his city, Pablo Escobar had a great deal of social and political impact on Colombian society.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
As Pablo Escobar's popularity continues to soar to the point of being worshipped like a God in Colombia, he continues to publicly deny his drug trafficking ties.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
Let's continue to examine the context in which Pablo Escobar began to rise to unparalleled power and the way in which Colombian society initially condoned this provincial man who was beginning to amass a drug trafficking fortune.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
Experts on Los Tiempos de Pablo Escobar [The Times of Pablo Escobar] tell about the formation of the infamous "Muerte a Secuestradores" [Death to Kidnappers], or MAS, a Colombian paramilitary group formed in the eighties with the goal of combatting kidnapping as well as furthering the interests of their supporters: Colombian drug cartels, politicians, U.S. corporations, and wealthy landowners.
Difficulty: Advanced
Ecuador
Modesto Nicolas Gomez Burgos shows us how organic brown sugar is produced at the Santa Barbara factory located in Imbabura, Ecuador.
Difficulty: Advanced
Ecuador
Manuel Quispe, owner of the indigenous clothing shop, Colors, in Saraguro, Ecuador, explains to us about some of the items they sell, particularly their handcrafted traditional necklaces.
Difficulty: Advanced
Peru
A member of the Quechua people from Peru shares with us a bit about the traditional use of the plant San Pedro, or "huachuma," which is thought to have medicinal and spiritual qualities that could help one get in touch with the cosmos, and oneself.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
For some Colombian cyclists from humble backgrounds, cycling has been a manner for them to travel the world and better themselves.
Difficulty: Advanced
Bolivia
The people of the Chapare region are harassed by military coca-eradication patrols that not only destroy their crops of coca but also frequently injure, insult, and even commit atrocities. But the will of the people and the culture fight on.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
The Ideas Club accompanies Carolina, an aspiring veterinarian in her freshman year, to the Fuengirola Bioparc to see first-hand how some of their exotic animals are cared for.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
Conservationists in Gorgona Natural National Park monitor endangered sea turtles, capturing them at night and marking them before releasing them back into the wild.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
Medical students in Almeria, Spain gain some hands-on experience using technology to diagnose diseases.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
The Ideas Club asks some high school students from Cordoba about the advantages of studying at the library vs. at home and for their suggestions on how to improve libraries.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain
While many Spanish greyhounds are meticulously taken care of, many animals considered unworthy or past their prime are simply abandoned by their owners.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain
Los Reporteros goes behind the scenes to explore how Greyhounds are selected for racing.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
Groups of students in Seville compete annually in the "First Lego League" with the incredible goal of developing such biomedical projects as robots designed to perform tasks like fixing bones, catherization, etc.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
75 minutos continues to explore the nuances of Spain's burgeoning second-hand car market.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain
While new car sales have gone down in recent times, the same is not true of second-hand automobiles, for which sales continue to increase.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain
75 minutos takes us behind the scenes at a second-hand clothing warehouse.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
At the height of the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly fashionable in Andalusia, Spain, to exchange apartments or stores. Learn more about this phenomenon.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain
Welcome to one of the most important olive factories in the world and meet one of its chemists and his family.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain
Andalusians use avocados for a variety of purposes from food to candles to beauty treatments. But, how are they grown and sold? 75 minutos takes you behind the scenes.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain
75 minutos continues its interviews with mushroom experts, introducing us to more varieties of mushrooms and seeing, in a restaurant which specializes in mushroom dishes, their transformation "from the field to the table."
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