Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
The cooking is underway in this Misión Chef competition and team members are already getting in trouble for not sticking to their portion of the meal.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
Now comes the moment of truth: The Mission Chef students have prepared their dishes and their instructor will evaluate them with brutal honesty. Who will make the final team?
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Colombia
Renowned Colombian poet Mary Grueso Romero recites a poem eroticizing the cuisine of the Colombian Pacific.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Colombia
Eight-year-old María Manuela tells us a bit about herself before treating us to her rendition of one of Colombian folklore's best-known melodies, "Pueblito viejo" [Little Old Town] by composer José Alejandro Morales.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Colombia
Cleer, a professional makeup artist from Colombia, takes us step by step through the makeover she is giving her friend, Catalina, in preparation for her job interview.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Colombia, Mexico
"Mambe & Danochilango" sing about a "Cumbia Universal" [Universal Cumbia] with the power to liberate individuals and unite nations.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
What was Colombia like before Pablo Escobar burst onto the scene? Find out in the introduction to this documentary in which key figures from the era reveal details about one of the country's darkest historical chapters.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
Renowned journalists and even one of the nation's ex-Presidents weigh in on what the atmosphere was like in Colombia during the times in which the cartels began to acquire massive power.
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
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
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
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
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
As Escobar makes public in the Congress of the Republic his opposition to the United States-Colombia Extradition Treaty, journalists like Guillermo Cano and public figures such as the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, begin to become more vocal about their opposition to him.
Difficulty:
Advanced
Colombia
Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara's accusations against Pablo Escobar radically change the history of the Medellin Cartel, and when Lara is murdered, there is no doubt who is behind it. When Escobar is removed from Congress, a battle ensues between him and Colombia's political elites.
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