Hear a South American General tell how he carried out a revolution-all by telephone and while wearing pyjamas. See the diamond rush in Venezuela in a honky-tonk town where fortunes are made and life is cheap.
These are just two of the fascinating stories in Europa's series of three programmes on South America which starts tonight. South America, the ever more turbulent continent, as it has been seen recently by the cameras of European television.
Introduced by Derek Hart