Synopsis
Guillermo Galdos tracks the high-risk journey to the United States of a Central American farmer forced to use people smugglers and crime cartels to escape the impact of climate change.
- Programme: Unreported World
- Episode: Uprooted by the Climate Crisis
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2021
- Geography | Weather and Climate | Climate change
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