Episodes (3)
Mar 22, 2015
Simon Reeve explores the Caribbean - Dominican Republic, Haiti and Porto Rico.
Mar 29, 2015
On Barbados, Simon examines the contrast between the very rich's opulent beach houses and the relative poor local dwellings. On nearby, poorer, yet soil-rich St.Vincent, he visits the local farmers' cannabis plantation on the volcanic slopes and their prime minister, considering legalization of the 'soft' drug. In Venezuela, he finds a rich oil-country under terrible government can fall deeper into misery, over the Colombian border, a major smuggle route, that a former guerrilla battleground can rehabilitate.
Apr 05, 2015
Simon enters continental Central America in Nicaragua, the poorest Americna country after Haiti, and finds that's largely the fault of the Sandinista government's misrule after the Contra civil war. Locals grimly disagree about the projected larger alternative to the Panama Canal, costing thrice the GNP, massive expropriation -disrupting natives- and wildlife destruction without guaranteed jobs for poorly schooled locals. in Honduras, a violent political history seems overtaken by drug-related gang wars, terrorizing the civilians and forcibly recruiting even pre-teens...
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Caribbean with Simon Reeve Season 1 (2015) is released on Mar 22, 2015. Watch Caribbean with Simon Reeve online - the English Documentary TV series from United Kingdom. Caribbean with Simon Reeve is directed by Matt Brandon,Oliver Bootle and created by Simon Reeve with Simon Reeve and .