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Experience the stories with selections from BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents and BBC TWO's Correspondent, then test your understanding with a quiz.

SPAIN'S BURIED PAST
More than sixty years ago, the banks of the River Duero became a bloody execution ground. Hundreds of local villagers were shot by Franco's Falangists. Now, a group of archaeologists has uncovered the mass graves, and are reconstructing the life and death of the victims.

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SALSA THERAPY
At Havana's Psychiatric Hospital, salsa and rumba help patients find their way back to mental health. At the hospital's performance hall, patients perform, sing and dance as part of their radical treatment.

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ARGENTINA'S FUTURE HOPE
Argentina is the world's fifth largest food exporter, yet much of its produce is beyond the reach of its poor population.
In the Andean province of Mendoza, however, the wine industry is thriving. Can this pull the country out of its current economic crisis?

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ITALY: MAFIA WOMEN
For the past 30 years, in southern Italy, the Cava and the Graziano families have fought a murderous campaign for control of the picturesque Lauro valley.
On May 26 2002, the situation took a chilling new turn. For the first time it was women, not men, who were both the victims and the suspected murderers.

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