Difficulty: Advanced
Spain
At Barcelona's BCNLIP language school, Javi and his students continue to ponder some predictions and their chances of occurring.
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
Colombia
Historian and guide, Henry Quinteros Marrugo, acquaints us with the history of Cartagena, Colombia, including its numerous invasions and the role of the San Felipe de Barajas fortress.
Difficulty: Advanced
Argentina
Rabbi Shloime offers us some insight into the origins and significance of the Hanukkah tradition.
Difficulty: Advanced
Venezuela
Victor Diaz interviews Rosana, a Venezuelan girl who has tattooed on her body some interesting and controversial figures.
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
Mexico
Alan continues his animated tour of Baja California Sur, Mexico's gorgeous Balandra Beach, pointing out its attractions and introducing us to locals.
Difficulty: Advanced
Mexico
Our lively guide, Alan, takes us to what he considers the paradise of all paradises- Balandra Beach in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
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.
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