Escape Rope

On his first journey to Central Asia in 1994, straightaway CC Reid realized how effectively he has been brainwashed; not only as a child, but even today as an adult. His narrative recounting his childhood under capitalism during the Cold War and then adulthood living among those who grew up under communism, clearly shows how demagogues so effectively brainwash us about the people and life in faraway lands. Through his lifetime living and working as a Public Health epidemiologist in Africa and Asia, CC presents how people really live; what they are really like. His real-world stories evolve from decades of experience with international development organizations including the US Peace Corps, USAID, WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children UK, ADRA and CARE. Escape Rope counters the vile disinformation about ‘Foreign Aid' spread by demonic demagogues and presents what Foreign Aid really does. 

You will also search for the world’s last remaining Smallpox in the 1970's, meeting three inspiring individuals in the remote savannah bush of southwestern Ethiopia, and discovering nomad hospitality in the barren thornbush desert of Somalia. CC's journey in Tanzania challenges the West on just who is developing whom? In Sierra Leone you will encounter everyday hardships which a leisure culture could never imagine. In the Caucasus region you will observe how those far-removed view a US presidential election. In Palestine you will witness the marginalized abused by the marginalized ¡Apaga la luz! reveals genuine compassion in rural Mexico. Finally, as you revisit CC's homeland, you will live through his most severe lifetime culture shock.