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For four years Link TV produced a video series that provided in-depth analysis of issues in Latin America. Although that video series is now on hiatus, this podcast of the same name is produced in the spirit of that original program.

  
  
  
  
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PHOTO: Brazil Protests (Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

(February 3, 2012) Indigenous issues across Latin America are the primary focus this week on Latin Pulse. The program features an in-depth interview about the proposed displacement of indigenous groups in the Amazon due to Brazil's Belo Monte dam project. The program also discusses indigenous politics and indigenous rights with a focus on Bolivia. The news segment of the program reveals Iran's plan for a new Spanish-language television network. [PHOTO: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino]

 

 

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Watch archived video episodes of Latin Pulse, a half-hour news magazine examining Latin American issues relevant to the American public, as presented by newscasts and reports from different Latin American countries. Latin Pulse fills the journalistic vacuum of Latin American news for English speakers, with programs featuring critical current affairs coverage of the region, including exclusive interviews, news, and cultural content.

 

Latin Pulse is supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Chicago Tribune Foundation, and viewers like you.

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Argentina's Food Farmers Trumped by Soy
Argentina's Food Farmers Trumped by Soy

Argentina's Food Farmers Trumped by Soy

(Latin Pulse: September 1, 2009) In this episode of Latin Pulse we focus on the struggle between Argentine food farmers and transnational soy producers. The soy producers bribe landowners and buy lands inhabited by indigenous tribes such as the Toba, Mocoví and Wichí among others, and bulldoze the forest to plant Monsanto soy.

We explore the destruction of the Chaco forest of South America with a documentary from Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Fernández Mouján. The destruction of the Amazons are well known, but one of South America's other biodiversity centers and it's second largest forest, El Chaco, is also in danger. In an original Link interview preceding the documentary, local human rights lawyer Rolando Núñez tells us that the soy struggle may be the closing act in the slow extermination of El Chaco's indigenous tribes.

After the forest has been bulldozed, the land is bathed in Monsanto 'Roundup' herbicide, and the Roundup-ready soy is planted, harvested and exported to feed pigs, cows and make biofuels in both China and the US. The heavy use of herbicides and pesticides is causing alarming rates of disease and deformities in the surrounding communities, however, the profit margins compel Argentina's farmers to grow the exported crop on lands where Argentina's food stuffs once grew.

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