“Because we don’t have anything we’ll do everything.” was the motto in Villa El Salvador, the burgeoning suburb in Lima’s south. These hard working values are instilled in the new generations who are Peru’s new middle class.
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The woman saving South America’s 2nd wilderness
Scientist Erika Cuellar has championed the Gran Chaco, South Americas second largest wilderness after the Amazon. She’s educating its inhabitants on how to preserve their expansive home.
Evo re-elected?
Bolivia’s president Evo Morales is cleared for a third re-election in 2014. Can anyone beat him?
Haute cuisine in – wait for it – Bolivia!
Dan Collyns takes us to the trendiest new restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia, the brainchild of top Danish chef and Noma founder, Claus Meyer. Could it be the vanguard of a gastronomic revolution in the land-locked country.
Cocaine: History between the Lines
Dan Collyns worked as the Peru producer on this feature-length History Channel documentary about the cocaine trade. Toby Barraud of NFGTV hired Dan to get the inside track on the drugs war at source.
A sweet alternative
From cocaine to chocolate. Can cocoa really be a substitute for the leaf that makes cocaine?