Movie Review | 'The Price of Sugar': Sugar Caneâs Bitter Harvest in the Dominican Republic
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âThe Price of Sugarâ is a muckraking documentary about Haitians lured into a form of indentured servitude on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic.
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In America, cockfighting is considered cruel and is illegal. But in the Dominican Republic, cockfighting is celebrated as a symbol of the countryâs warrior spirit.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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Violence and political instability are growing in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. More than seven months after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country, political polarization and economic hardship
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DUBEDOU, Haiti Sept. 29, 2004 - The corn crop is flattened, rice paddies are washed away. Even the bitter oranges exported to make liqueur have become casualties of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which killed more
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Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World War II. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
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The first time Robert Rodriguez met Mike Price, he didn&#39;t know whether to laugh, cheer or simply stare in disbelief. When Price emerged from a year in coaching purgatory
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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A quadrupling of incoming suspected drug flights in the past two years has forced Haiti and the Dominican Republic to face up to the fact that the island they share is a major transshipment point for cocaine bound to U.S. and European consumers.
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If your brain is in a free-association mood, and you tune in âThe Dying Fields,â a âWide Angleâ installment tonight on PBS about farmers in India caught in a debt nightmare, you may find yourself thinking at first of Americaâs mortgage mess.
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African sugar farmers and other developing countries stand to benefit from a new ruling by the World Trading Organisation (WTO) declaring some European sugar exports as illegal.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (IPS) - The European Commission's current proposals  for the sugar regime could have severe consequences for  developing countries, says the African, Caribbean and Pacific  group of countries.
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This stirring, idealistic documentary about the grass-roots cooperative movement in Argentina raises basic questions about economics, government and human nature.
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In a movie culture filled with fake death and callous killing, âDying at Graceâ is not just a shock to the system; itâs an accusation.
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Blog: Why not make plastic forks from sugar cane
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Daniel Day-Lewis gives a towering performance in a unique film about idealism and greed in the American West
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Pleasant visions of fun in the sun in the Dominican Republic are being shattered by sad images of residents being smuggled away on wooden boats, only to perish at sea.