Latino Americans

Episode 6: Peril and Promise

Episode 6 | 55m 6s

Takes viewers through the past 30 years, with a second wave of Cubans arriving in Miami during the Mariel exodus and with hundreds of thousands Salvadorans, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans fleeing civil wars, death squads and unrest to go north into a new land — transforming the United States along the way.

Aired: 09/30/13 | Expires: 11/12/23 | Rating: NR

Funding for LATINO AMERICANS is provided by CPB, PBS, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and The Summerlee Foundation

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• Episode 6: Peril and Promise Trailer

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