An investigation into how Hugo Chavez's Venezuela is using its oil wealth to build political power at home and challenge US hegemony across the Americas. Its massive deposits of super-heavy crude add up to more oil than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and make Hugo Chavez the America's new energy superpower.

This video brings us the voices and minds of Farmers from Cuzco, Peru. They explain what school they want for their children, what education is needed for life to flourish and for the strength of ancestral times to be carried over to new generations. Over the past decade the Nucleus for Andean Cultural Affirmation CEPROSI has been working in Cusco with groups of rural teachers and parents in order to attain an understanding of education and cultural diversity. The reflections they make on the way in which Andean children learn of both worlds, western and Andean, lead them to unexpected conclusions that deserve to be listened to and taken into account.

On December 18, 2005, Evo Morales was elected President of Bolivia. For the first time in history, an Indian reached a position of power in the country. The planters in the Chapare region have consolidated a sound organisation in support of planting coca leaf, a sacred plant of great cultural and economic relevance. Today, the coca planters participate actively in the national political arena, where the values of traditional native culture and contemporary social movements converge.

An investigation into the fraud in the 2006 Mexican elections that saw left-wing front-runner Manuel Lopez Obrador lose to right wing candidate Felipe Calderon.

In a Colombian state, a distressed group of indigenous people under the white man pressure (army, paramilitary and guerrilla), meet together to ask the "bunachi" (white man) to live them alone.

When night falls, the Colombian countryside undergoes a transformation. Danger lurks in the dark. Carmen, a peasant woman in her fifties, knows it well. This film finds the right distance to absorb her tale of a tormented life, while drawing the audience into the harsh world of the Colombian peasant through one of its most fascinating aspects: the oral tradition.

A succession of mysteries are repeatedly ordered and observed. A ritual for creating meaning. Dreaming, a daily exercise in the free interpretation of reality.

“By documenting the production of panela (a raw brown sugar), with which we sweeten our food and drinks, this video offers a glimpse of life in my indigenous community, where work, happiness, and suffering is shared. It also provides insight into how cultivating our own food contributes to our struggle to be self-sufficient and reduces our worries about money”.

The 'Cartoneros', an army of the shadows - more than 100,000 strong -who assemble each night to scavenge the city's street and rubbish dumps for cardboard to sell for a pittance. These people commute to their place of work like foraging animals, herding themselves onto the 'White Train' which rattles through the suburbs of Buenos Aires in the battered shells of carriages devoid of doors, windows, seating or lights.

This documentary invites viewers to reflect on the needs that are generated in the West through the lives of four sisters aged three to nine who live in Isla del Sol, a place with no police force, no churches, no motors and no petrol... What is it like to live without these powers that be? The father of the four girls talks about his life in an unedited 40 minute interview accompanied by images of his daughters.