Frontline/World [videorecording DVD] : stories from a small planet, October 25, 2005 / from the producers of Frontline ; WGBH Boston and KQED San Francisco.
Frontline (Television program) [videorecording DVD] Peru, the curse of Inca gold [videorecording DVD] Curse of Inca gold [videorecording DVD] Ukraine, a murder in Kyiv [videorecording DVD] Murder in Kyiv [videorecording DVD]
Notes:
Videodisc release of the PBS program, Frontline/World which aired October 25, 2005.
Contents:
Peru, the curse of Inca gold / reported by Lowell Bergman -- Ukraine, a murder in Kyiv / reported by Brian Knappenberger.
Summary:
First segment. Peru : the curse of Inca gold (approx. 30 min.). Lowell Bergman travels to the Peruvian Andes to uncover the story of a battle for Yanacocha, the world's richest gold mine. Bergman reveals political intrigue including attempts to influence Peru's Supreme Court to rule in favor of an American company, focusing on Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos. The program investigates Newmont Mining of Denver, Colorado, and meets the crusading priest who leads local campesinos who have opposed expansion of the mine after a toxic mercury spill. Second segment. Ukraine : a murder in Kyiv (approx. 30 min.). Georgy Gongadze was a crusading journalist whose death in Sept. 2000 helped spark the Orange Revolution. A year earlier, on national television, he dared to confront then President Leonid Kuchma for failing to investigate an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. Kuchma, an authoritarian ruler, was not used to being challenged in public. But Gongadze was fearless and kept after Kuchma and his cronies -- until the night he vanished. But today, despite new president Yevtushenko's pledge, Gongadze's murder remains curiously unsolved.
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