Forced Labor and a Government Ban
Charity Ryerson investigates human rights and environmental abuse allegations against multinational corporations everyday. But what she and her team found in Central Romana worker camps was like nothi...
30 Maalis 17min
Who Bears the Cost
Meet Kina Phillips, part of the grass roots effort in Florida to fight cane burning and encourage the sugar companies to embrace green-harvesting methods. Then, Celeste digs deeper into how the pendin...
30 Maalis 26min
Black Snow Falls in Florida
Reporter Lulu Ramadan set out to cover the health effects of burning cane. Now, for the first time, there is data linking Florida residents’ respiratory illnesses to Big Sugar.Big Sugar is a Weekday F...
30 Maalis 14min
Trench Warfare
There’s one last jury trial left, one last shot at forcing the sugar companies to make good on unpaid wages. And Dave Gorman miraculously finds new evidence that could clinch it. But that’s when an ob...
30 Maalis 58min
The Battle of the Swamp
At the intersection of sugar, nature and influence, you find yourself in just one place: the Everglades, an environmental wonder and disaster. The fight for control and the fight to clean up the massi...
30 Maalis 51min
Bittersweet
Meet Cristin Kearns, a dentist turned detective. She's on a mission to uncover the darkly shrewd public relations strategies that the Sugar industry has used to burnish its image and conceal the healt...
30 Maalis 49min
The American Dream
Exiled brothers Alfy and Pepe Fanjul landed in Florida after the Cuban Revolution with their sights set on one thing: rebuilding their fortune. Their journey to riches includes an FBI investigation, s...
30 Maalis 43min
