The Stories Behind the Tweets - Argentina/Spain/Mexico

teleSUR English 2014-11-25

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The Stories Behind the Tweets, hosted by William Parra, seeks to open a window to the world, to get to the bottom of stories larger than 140 characters. The first segment in today's program delves into some dispues and mysteries surrounding Argentine strongman and populist president Juan Peron, beginning with his birthplace, whether it was in Lobos or Roque Perez, both in Buenos Aires province. The debate has sparked fierce competition between two villages; then for a segment entitled "Ferrol: Ghost Town", about the plight of this North Galician city, which had been a prosperous seaport with booming shipyards, but with Spain joining the EU and Madrid's industrial restructuring policies, the area with a 32% employment rate is now in a deep and perhaps terminal slump; finally, a look at Oaxaca, Mexico's indigenous corn producing communities and their defense of their ancestral crop, part of their culture and identity, against the ever threatening presence of genetically modified varieties. teleSUR

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