(Latin Pulse: June 2, 2008) In Latin America soccer is a game of passion, and it's taken to heart. What many consider to be the biggest game in the world has become so huge that when national teams play, entire countries come to a stop. It's also big business. Is soccer simply a game or is it an escape from the reality of poverty and corruption in Latin America? En Español: En Latino América fútbol es un juego con pasión, y se toma en serio. Muchos lo consideran el deporte más importante en el mundo, y se ha vuelto tan grande que cuando la selección nacional juega, el país entero se toma el tiempo para seguir el juego. Es también un negocio importante. ¿Es el fútbol simplemente un juego, o es un escape de la realidad que conlleva pobreza y corrupción en Latino América? GUESTS: Branko Milanovic, World Bank, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Visiting Scholar Branco is a lead economist in the World Bank's research department, where he has been working on the topics of income inequality and globalization. Previously, he was a World Bank country economist for Poland and a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since 1996, Milanovic has also served as a visiting professor teaching the economics of transition at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1987 from Belgrade University. As a senior associate on a two-year assignment with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Global Policy Program, Milanovic focused his research on globalization and world income distribution, as well as the interaction between politics, reform, and inequality in transition countries. He remains an associate scholar with the Endowment. Mylene Moreno, Documentary Filmmaker, "Fanáticos" Los Angeles-based filmmaker Mylène Moreno makes documentaries that reflect her diverse cultural interests. She is currently following Mexican fútbol fanáticos in southern California during the second season of the professional soccer team, Chivas USA. Her last project is "Recalling Orange County," a personal look at the orchestrated backlash against an immigrant rights leader that reveals fierce conflicts in California's Orange County over what it means to be American. It began airing in October, 2006, during the inaugural season of the Latino Public Broadcasting series VOCES. Mylène's previous film, "True-Hearted Vixens," featured female jocks pursuing dreams of professional athletic greatness in a startup tackle football league. Produced in association with the Independent Television Service, "Vixens" aired during the 2001 season of P.O.V. Previously, she worked in Austin on several PBS documentaries, producing the first episode of the landmark PBS series "¡CHICANO! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement." She also produced a tongue-in-cheek documentary "search" for the brilliant and reclusive novelist Cormac McCarthy, "Cormac's Trash," and directed "Maribel," a short about an El Paso teen's experience of motherhood, marriage and a second pregnancy. Mylène is a graduate of Stanford University's documentary film program. "Fanáticos" Synopsis: Worldwide, soccer fans are a phenomenon unto themselves. In the US, soccer may still be in its youth, but the fans are already here, creating new communities, influencing our appreciation for the game and supporting their home team. One such team is a fútbol club called Chivas USA. Fanaticos follows the fortunes of Club Deportivo Chivas USA's most colorful fans, Mexican and Mexican American fútbol devotés, during the team's second season in the United States' professional soccer league. Dr. Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli, Introduction to the Humanities, Stanford University Tomás was born in Argentina and came to the United States in 1986. He studied Journalism, Film and Comparative Literature at San Francisco State University and did his graduate work at the University of California, Irvine and San Diego. The last four years Crowder-Tarborelli have been completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Tomás is also one of the directors of the Stanford Film Lab and had directed a couple of documentary films. He is a Boca Juniors fan.