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Susan Rice discusses black economic empowerment with with host Mishal Husain.

(August 28, 2003) The film reveals the stark contrasts among the lives of South Africans almost ten years after the demise of apartheid. The clock is still clearly ticking to do even more to improve life for the black majority -- or face the consequences.

The film reveals the stark contrasts among the lives of South Africans almost 10 years after the demise of apartheid. The documentary focuses on Uthingo, the consortium of black-empowerment companies that manages the national lottery.

From cell phones and banks to fast food chains and grocery stores, if a new business opens in an African town, it's most likely South African.

"A man of very questionable integrity," wrote Britain's ECONOMIST magazine. "A threat to liberal democracy," thundered France's LIBERATION daily. Most Italians disagree.

(August 21, 2003) The Prime Minister and the Press examines Silvio Berlusconi's rise to prominence, and explores what happens to public debate when extreme wealth and political power converge with media dominance.

(August 7, 2003) WIDE ANGLE travels with Evo Morales to the stunning highlands of Bolivia as he fights to expand the amount of coca that can be legally grown by farmers. The pitfalls of a drug-based economy -- and the difficulty of finding suitable replacement crops to support peasant families -- are all part of the story.

I met up with Evo Morales at a rally in the coca growing region. We had heard he tends not to like gringos but he seemed to think I was O.K. - until lunch time.

Timeline of history of politics in Bolivia.

Links to information about Bolivia.

One year after Evo Morales, a leftist Aymara Indian and coca growers’ advocate, came in a close second in Bolivia’s presidential election, it’s interesting to speculate on just where he would stand today on Latin America’s political spectrum if he had won.

WIDE ANGLE travels with Morales to the stunning highlands of Bolivia as he fights to expand the amount of coca that can be legally grown by farmers.

Italian government in the years since World War II.