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A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby: Colombia and Venezuela

22/06/2013 GMT

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The stories behind this rapidly changing continent. Jonathan travels across Colombia.

On the second leg of his journey Jonathan travels across Colombia, a country long synonymous with drug wars, and finds hope, vibrancy and resilience. In Jonathan's search for the stories that define a country emerging from decades of violence, he cycles with a visionary mayor around the streets of Bogota and visits six million dollar homes in the city's booming property market. He meets a reformed FARC fighter making his way in the high-end restaurants of the city and journeys to a remote coffee farm in the Andes. In Medell� the infamous fiefdom of Pablo Escobar, he comes face to face with the legacy of violence in the town cemetery, and ends his Colombian journey with a group of breakdancing kids, the new heroes of the notorious hillside slums.

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Jonathan Dimbleby travels to South America to report on dramatic changes.

Jonathan Dimbleby travels to South America to report on dramatic changes in one of the world's least understood continents.

Jonathan Dimbleby first reported from South America over 30 years ago. Since then the continent has witnessed dramatic change. Today - for good reasons - it is a backpacker's paradise, an adventure playground for romantics, and a 'dream space' for jaded western palates of all ages. But for 400 million South Americans it is home: a vital source of political, social and economic progress in a rapidly changing world. Thirty years ago, South America was regarded by the White House as being the USA's 'backyard'. That was in the Cold War. In the age of globalisation, South America can make its own way and is doing so.

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