Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, Venezuela’s economy is in a freefall, necessities have become scarce and tens of thousands of residents are fleeing across the border to Colombia. For the PBS Newshour, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Nadja Drost and videographer Bruno Federico report on the exodus.
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The Overseas Press Club Award for our PBS Newshour series “Fight for Peace.”
Very happy our series, with Nadja Drost, about Colombia`s peace process with the PBS NewsHour received the Overseas Press Club Award for best reporting on Latin America. Thank you to PBS for giving us the opportunity to tell this important story to the North American public and to join this super team of producers Morgan Till, Patti Parson, Sara Just.
Those are the reports awarded:
Can Colombia rework its FARC deal without jeopardizing peace? PBS NewsHour
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos joins PBS NewsHour
What peace in Colombia would mean for the drug trade and those who depend on it. PBS NewsHour
Inside Colombia’s jungles, how FARC rebels are preparing for peace. PBS NewsHour
Can Colombia rework its FARC deal without jeopardizing peace? PBS NewsHour
Colombia was on the verge of ending one of the most violent civil wars in Latin America just slightly more than a month ago, when the deal was narrowly rejected by a voter referendum. President Juan Manuel Santos now faces the challenge of re-writing the deal to make it favorable to those who voted against it while still keeping it agreeable to FARC. Special correspondent Nadja Drost reports.
What peace in Colombia would mean for the drug trade and those who depend on it. PBS NewsHour
As Colombian officials negotiate with FARC rebels to end the country’s 50-year civil war, the illegal drug trade — used by the rebels to help finance their insurgency — has become a major point of debate. Special correspondents Bruno Federico and Nadja Drost travel to the heart of coca production in Colombia to examine how the drug market works and the impact of a potential peace deal.
Inside Colombia’s jungles, how FARC rebels are preparing for peace. PBS NewsHour
After decades of evading the Colombian military, FARC rebels are emerging from the jungle. Special correspondents Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico offer an exclusive look at the FARC perspective amid peace talks to end the world’s longest-running conflict.
Aiming at the heart – Apuntando al Corazón. English version
Heroes Do Exist in Colombia was the name of the first major military propaganda campaign rolled out during ex-president Alvaro Uribe’s (2002-2010) Democratic Security Policy.
The government’s publicists reached for the hearts and minds of Colombians using emotional narratives of war and by constructing an image of the military based on the figure of hero and protector of a population vulnerable in the face of a guerrilla insurgency.
Aimed at convincing Colombians of the need for a security policy at any cost, the propaganda strategy also served as a way to conceal the reproachable role of the government during one of the cruelest periods of the armed conflict marked by paramilitary violence, political corruption and the military practice of inflating body counts by killing innocent civilians.
Aiming for the Heart shows how publicity campaigns become yet another battle ground in the armed conflict, trying to legitimize a war through propaganda and win the support of a divided society.
Direction: Claudia Gordillo and Bruno Federico
Original Idea: Claudia Gordillo
Research Assistant: Camilo Medina
Photography and editing: Bruno Federico
Production: Dance Stationary
Music: Music Multimedia
Illustrations: Snif
Duration: 52 minutes
Country: Colombia
Year: 2013
107 Segundos – obreros del sur
Narra el viaje de tres obreros de la Fiat en el sur de Italia despedidos por protestar contra el aumento de la producción en la fábrica, que ya era insostenible. Es un viaje entre el chantaje de la Fiat que pretende retroceder las condiciones de trabajo de hace 40 años, con la amenaza del cierre de las plantas. Giovanni, Antonio y Marco, visitan diversas fábricas del grupo Fiat dándose cuenta que su condición es compartida por miles de trabajadoras-es. Es la misma fábrica de Pomigliano, objeto inicial del chantaje, la que indica la salida: la lucha de clase es la union de todos los oprimidos.
