- Title: Travels With A Gringo
- Date: 13th July 2003
- Description:Like many people,journalist and documentary filmmaker Sean Langan had heard about globalisation. He'd seen the anti-globalisation riots and protests on television,but apart from some vague notion that Nike,mobile phones and a Big Mac were all somehow involved,he wasn't really sure what globalisation really meant. So he travelled from one end of Latin America to the other,to find out what it means for the people there,and,more importantly,to see for himself what impact it's had on their lives. Travels of a Gringo,a three-part series,follows Sean on his long journey of discovery. Written and filmed by; Sean Langan Producer; Ben Summers (Episode Three) Sean concludes his journey from one end of Latin America to the other in an attempt to discover the true impact of globalisation on ordinary people's lives. At a banana plantation in Honduras,Sean meets some of the workers and witnesses at first hand their working and living conditions. With globalisation,cheap labour has become as vital a resource as bananas and,in Central America,multinational companies have established factories specifically to exploit the cheap labour. The series ends on the Mexican-US border,where Sean meets a range of people about to risk their lives crossing illegally into the States; all trying to escape the poverty of Latin America - a poverty they believe is aggravated by the very country to which they are running.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 3
- Transmission Date:13/07/2003
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s