{"id":40503,"date":"2015-02-03T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/?p=40503"},"modified":"2015-02-02T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:35:00","slug":"discovery-en-espanol-expone-el-peligroso-submundo-de-la-frontera-entre-colombia-y-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/discovery-en-espanol-expone-el-peligroso-submundo-de-la-frontera-entre-colombia-y-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery en Espanol Exposes the Dangerous Underworld Along the Border Between Colombia and Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><br \/>\n  <head><br \/>\n    <META http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/META><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}<\/p>\n<p>BODY {\nFONT-SIZE: 0.83em; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\"\n}\nA {\nCOLOR: blue\n}\n#divWide\n{\nmargin:0;\nmargin-top:1.33em;\n}\nLI {\nFONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\"\n}\n<\/style>\n<p><\/head><br \/>\n  <body topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\"><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n<div id=\"divHeadline\" style=\"width:800px;margin-left:10pt\">\n      <!-- #Begin headline --><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\n        <b>Discovery en Espanol Exposes the Dangerous Underworld Along the Border Between Colombia and Venezuela<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        <b><br \/>\n          <i>The investigative documentary &#8220;La frontera mas caliente: Colombia-Venezuela&#8221; takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the contraband economy that dominates the region<\/i><br \/>\n        <\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <!-- #End headline -->\n    <\/div>\n<div id=\"divBody\" style=\"width:800px;margin-left:10pt\">\n      <!-- #Begin release --><br \/>\n<!-- #Begin Wide Release --><\/p>\n<div id=\"divWide\">\n<p>MIAMI, Feb. 3, 2015 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The border between Colombia and Venezuela is home to some of the world&#8217;s richest oil and gas reserves. But it is also a region <span id=\"spanHghlt5bc0\">wracked<\/span> by violence, contraband and armed groups vying to control the territory. The original production <b>LA FRONTERA MAS CALIENTE: COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA<\/b>, premiering <i>Sunday, February 15 at 10PM E\/P,<\/i> takes an up-close look at this tumultuous region, exposing its hidden dangers. <\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\" id=\"dvprnejpg2820left\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg2820left\" title=\"Discovery en Espanol.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Discovery en Espanol.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20130221\/MM64644LOGO\"><\/img><\/div>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20130221\/MM64644LOGO\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20130221\/MM64644LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Filmed in both countries, the documentary uncovers the &#8220;modus operandi&#8221; and illegal routes traffickers use to move gasoline, food and currency into Colombia. North of the border in <span id=\"spanHghlt1d62\">La Guajira department<\/span>, Discovery en Espanol&#8217;s camera crew traveled alongside a contraband trader transporting more than 1,000 gallons of Venezuelan gasoline to the Colombian city of Maicao.\u00a0 His is a profitable but perilous business that involves evading the authorities and paying large sums of money at checkpoints controlled by Colombia&#8217;s ELN and FARC guerrillas. <\/p>\n<p><b>LA FRONTERA MAS CALIENTE: COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA<\/b> shows a reality in which local residents rub shoulders with traffickers, paramilitary and guerrilla groups, and common criminals in a common quest to profit from the lucrative contraband trade. \u00a0The border region is also an irresistible target for attacks and extortion by guerrillas and paramilitaries alike, with more than 3,500 people reported missing from the area in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to La Guajira, Discovery en Espanol&#8217;s production team visited the Colombian <span id=\"spanHghltd963\">departments<\/span> of North Santander and Arauca, and Tachira state in Venezuela for exclusive interviews with political analysts, customs agents, navy officials, relatives of the disappeared, and representatives of such foundations as &#8220;Paz y Reconciliacion&#8221; and &#8220;Progresar&#8221; to examine the complicated dynamics of the border region.<\/p>\n<p><b>LA FRONTERA MAS CALIENTE: COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA<\/b> is a coproduction by Discovery en Espanol and Caracol Television under the supervision of Michela Giorelli, Discovery&#8217;s Vice President for content and production; with the assistance of Pacha Films, under the direction of Luis del Valle. <\/p>\n<p>For more about network programming, please visit discoveryenespanol.com or follow us on facebook.com\/discoveryenespanol and Twitter @DiscoveryenESP.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Discovery en Espanol <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Discovery en Espanol connects Spanish-speaking viewers in the U.S. to the world and all its wonder and possibilities. It provides quality programming focusing on bold\u00a0storytelling\u00a0across core genres including\u00a0adventure,\u00a0ingenuity,\u00a0natural history,\u00a0investigation\u00a0and\u00a0current\u00a0affairs. Created by Discovery Communications, Discovery en Espanol is widely distributed on Hispanic tier packages throughout the country.\u00a0For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/tudiscovery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">discoveryenespanol.com<\/a>, or follow us on Facebook at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/discoveryenespanol\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/discoveryenespanol<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter @DiscoveryenESP.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- #End Wide Release --><\/p>\n<div id=\"divMediaContact\"> <\/div>\n<p><!-- #End release --><\/div>\n<p>\n  <\/body><br \/>\n<\/html> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery en Espanol Exposes the Dangerous Underworld Along the Border Between Colombia and Venezuela The investigative documentary &#8220;La frontera mas caliente: Colombia-Venezuela&#8221; takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the contraband economy that dominates the region MIAMI, Feb. 3, 2015 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The border between Colombia and Venezuela is home to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entretenimiento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}