Latin America

We broadcast Steve Vittoria’s award-winning documentary, “One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern,” narrated by Amy Goodman. A family spokesperson confirms the 90-year-old McGovern is no longer responsive and is “at the end stages of his life.”

President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney sparred last night in their second of three debates. Today, in a two-hour special, we expand the debate by including the voices of three presidential candidates shut out of the official debate.

Today we look at the Chilean students’ movement, which led last year’s massive citizen democracy movement — the largest protests since the days of opposition marches to General Augusto Pinochet a generation ago.

A standoff is underway in Texas over construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run oil from the Canadian tar sands fields to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast.

The Palestinian Authority concerned about frequent Israeli settlers attempts to storm the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, meanwhile, Israeli military conducts 46 military incursions into Palestinain communities..

As consumers worldwide flood Apple Stores to buy the new iPhone 5, we look at why thousands of Chinese workers at a key Apple manufacturing plant walked off the job last week.

We go to Caracas to speak with actor and activist Danny Glover, who traveled to Venezuela to monitor the election. Glover predicts that “we may find that certainly President Chávez and those [other Latin American leaders] who are re-elected will really create a new page in this history of this region.

As the United States commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the so-called “New World” in 1492, indigenous activists at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, are pushing for schools to teach the “real history of the Americas” and to celebrate indigenous culture.