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University of California, Berkeley
Journalist with the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley and producer of the documentary Rape in the Fields, a Frontline/Univision co-production
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Andres Cediel
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FROM Andres Cediel
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Can Big Business Improve the Plight of America's Farm Workers? Migrant workers labor under conditions that some describe as a kind of indentured servitude and, until not that long ago, the very worst of the worst offenders were the tomato farms of Immokolee, Florida. But, in 1993, tomato pickers there got together and began partnering with retailers and restaurant chains, including McDonald's and Taco Bell, to pressure growers in Florida into providing better wages and humane conditions. Now one of the nation's largest and least labor friendly corporations is joining up. Will Walmart bring this innovative program to the rest of the country? Is threatening the bottom dollar the most effective way to improve the lives of the nation's most vulnerable workers?
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Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
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Ex-FBI Director Comey tells his side of the story Today, former FBI Director James Comey came close to calling the President who fired him a liar. The White House denied the claim and called it insulting, but Republican Senators did not challenge Comey’s truthfulness. Many questions remain: did the President try to obstruct a federal investigation? Later, we’ll go behind the “velvet rope” for a look at 5-Star health care for the richest Americans.
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Venezuela spirals into economic and political chaos Venezuela, a country whose potential for prosperity is unmatched, finds itself on the verge of civil war. What sustains the repressive government? With time running out, guest host León Krauze looks at what the international community can do to pull the country from the edge of collapse.