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A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby

Jonathan Dimbleby

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Caroline Jones

Peter Grimsdale

A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby: Episode 2: Colombia and Venezuela

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Episode 2: Colombia and Venezuela

BBC Two - A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby, Colombia and Venezuela

Jonathan travels across Colombia and Venezuela, South America's Caribbean giants.

The stories behind this rapidly changing continent. Jonathan travels across Colombia and Venezuela, South America's Caribbean giants.

On the second leg of his journey Jonathan travels across Colombia and Venezuela, South America's Caribbean giants, and discovers that they have strikingly divergent modern realities.

Colombia, for so long synonymous with drug wars, is also a country of 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 Bogotá 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 Medellín, 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.

In Venezuela, a country vastly rich in oil reserves and dominated by its socialist leader Hugo Chavez, Jonathan searches for a sense of the real Venezuela. On his journey he finds himself in the midst of a sea of red shirts at an anti-US, pro-Chavez rally; he joins a police patrol in a crime-ridden neighbourhood of Caracas; rides with cowboys on the plains; fishes with fishermen in a socialist cooperative; and tastes the world's finest chocolate bean. Along the way he discovers a polarised country where all is not always as it seems.

He ends his journey through Venezuela listening to the music of an inspirational youth orchestra drawn from two previously warring neighbourhoods. They are the product of Venezuela's extraordinary 'El Sistema', a programme that offers free classical music training and instruments to a quarter of a million young people from all backgrounds.

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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

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