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April
3 , 1999
12:00-1:00 p.m. PST
HEALTH EDITION. Dr. Elmer Huerta joins this edition every two weeks to comment on new developments in the medical field. Dr. Huerta also answers listeners' health concerns.Guest: Dr. Elmer Huerta, Oncologist, George Washington Hospital, www.prevencion.org
THE 2000 CENSUS COUNT. On this day, enumerators from the U.S. Census Bureau begin walking the neighborhoods to locate residents who have failed to return the census forms. This program is part of a special series to dispel fears, answer questions and help prevent a repeat of the undercount that left millions of children and Latinos out in the 1990 census.
April
4 , 1999
IMMIGRATION EDITION - Attorney Carlos Spector-Calderón, an authority on immigration and nationality law, joins this weekly program from El Paso. In addition to answering listener calls, Spector-Calderón reviews the latest news updates and changes in immigration law.
CROSS-BORDER HMO. SIMNSA Health Care, a Mexican HMO, became the first health plan to get a license in California for cross-border coverage. The license allows SIMNSA to provide health insurance to Mexican citizens who live in Mexico while working in California. This program features a discussion on HMOs licensing requirements and the operations of a cross-border HMO.Guests: Francisco S. Carrillo, president and founder, SIMNSA, Sistemas Médicos Nacionales S.A., Tijuana/San Diego. Other guests TBA.
April
5 , 1999
FARM WORKERS PROTECTIONS. A discussion about pending federal and California legislation that may strengthen farm worker transportation safety and other issues on farm labor housing and union elections.Guests: Arturo Rodriguez, president, United Farm Workers of America; Paul Chávez, president, UFW's National Farm Workers Service Center, Inc.
ALSO, ELIAN GONZALEZ STANDOFF. As a new deadline approaches in the standoff between the federal government and Miami's authorities and Cuban-American leaders, the father of Cuban child Elian Gonzalez prepares to visit the United States to claim his son. This program provides a news report.
"BRACEROPROA." Veteran Mexican farm workers who were contracted as guest workers by the United States during World World II step up their demands to the Mexican government for reimbursement of an unclaimed savings fund. Hundreds began a long march from Guanajuato to Mexico City and the leaders are considering the help of attorneys who successfully represented Jewish clients in their claim against Swiss banks. This movement is called "Braceroproa," in reference to a recent savings-and-loan scandal involving high Mexican officials.
Guest: Bracero representatives.
April
6,
1999
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 12:00 NOON PST--PUERTO RICO EDITION - WRTU. Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico provides interviews and analysis on news developments impacting the Caribbean basin. This week's program will provide a discussion of the upcoming legislative elections in neighboring Haiti, which are being seen as a test for the fledgling democratic system in the island.HOST: Cándida Coto.
MEXICO EDITION. Francisco "Paco" Huerta, winner of the National Journalism Award in 1983, is a veteran radio journalist and program host. He offers this weekly, tape-delayed edition of the series "Voz Pública," a call-in program airing in Mexico City.HOST: Francisco Huerta, www.vozpublica.com
April
7 ,
1999
THE CENSUS COUNT. Non governmental organizations, volunteers and Census enumerators organize promotional events to dispel fears and encourage residents to fill out the Census questionnaires. This program talks about what's new in the census campaign and answers questions about the census forms and the highly debated "Question #8," defining ethnicity and race.Guest: Isabel Alegría, MALDEF, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, San Francisco.
RURAL SCHOOLS FOR TEACHERS. Educational reforms dating back to the beginning of the century created a number of schools in the rural areas to train teachers of farm working background. Seventy years later, only a few "Normales Rurales" remain, surviving with low budgets, plagued by academic neglect and unemployment, and in constant student activism and conflict. This program looks at the crisis and future of Mexico's rural schools for teachers.
April
10, 1999
HEALTH EDITION - ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE. A recent report by the organization Commonwealth Fund titled "Working Without Benefits: the Health Insurance Crisis Confronting Hispanic Americans," focuses on the barriers that prevent Latinos from having access to health care. This program features a roundtable discussion on the issue.Guest: TBA. www.commonwealthfund.org/program/insurance/quinn_wobenefits_370.asp
UNIVERSAL LIFELINE. California's Lifeline Telephone Service program, funded by a telephone surcharge, tries to ensure that eligible households have access to affordable telephone service. Now the state's Public Utilities Commission reaches out to under-served populations, including those who speak little English, to make them aware of the benefits of the program.
April
11, 1999
EL TIGRE EMILIO AZCARRAGA. A conversation with the authors of the book "El Tigre: Emilio Azcarraga y su Imperio Televisa," a biography of the Mexican media mogul Emilio Azcárraga Milmo. Azcárraga was the founder of the TV giant Grupo Televisa, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the world and the richest man in Latin America.Guests: Andrew Paxman and Claudia Fernández, authors,
www.tigre-azcarraga.com
IMMIGRATION EDITION - Attorney Carlos Spector-Calderón, an authority on immigration and nationality law, joins this weekly program from El Paso. In addition to answering listener calls, Spector-Calderón reviews the latest news updates and changes in immigration law.
April
12, 1999
RODOLFO MONTIEL. Mexican activist Rodolfo Montiel, imprisoned in Mexico for nearly a year, was distinguished with the Goldman environmental award, which includes a fund of 125,000 dlls. Montiel has been protesting for years the degradation of forests, corruption and human rights violations in the Southern Sierra Madre. He was jailed under charges called spurious by human rights groups.
"CHOCOLATE" CARS. Correspondent Raul Silva joins the program to report on recent proposals in Congress to help migrants legalize the importation of trucks brought from the United States. Silva also reports on the latest effort by veteran "Bracero" guest workers to demand reimbursement of savings funds deducted from their paychecks when they were covered by bi-national contracts in the 1940s and 1950s.
Guest: Raúl Silva, news correspondent, Mexico City.
April
13,
1999
PUERTO RICO EDITION - WRTU - Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico provides interviews and analysis on news developments impacting the Caribbean basin.HOST: Cándida Coto.
MEXICO EDITION. Francisco "Paco" Huerta, winner of the National Journalism Award in 1983, is a veteran radio journalist and program host. He offers this weekly, tape-delayed edition of the series "Voz Pública," a call-in program airing in Mexico City.HOST: Francisco Huerta, www.vozpublica.com
April
14,
1999
ORGANIC AG. The federal government has recently proposed new organic farming rules to create uniform standards for farmers growing and marketing products labeled as organic. The new rules also create a list of acceptable substances for organic products. California holds this month a series of public meetings to discuss the new rules, which are being greeted by organic farmers and consumer groups.Guest: Luis Miguel Sierra, Center for Rural Development, Salinas, CA; María Inés Catalán, organic farmer, Salinas, CA; and a biotech industry representative.
THE CENSUS COUNT. This program is part of a special series to discuss issues related to the U.S. census count. Non governmental organizations representatives assess the progress in the census campaign and answer concerns from listeners about the census forms.
April
24 , 2000
HEALTH EDITION - ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE. A recent report by the organization Commonwealth Fund titled "Working Without Benefits: the Health Insurance Crisis Confronting Hispanic Americans," focuses on the barriers that prevent Latinos from having access to health care. This program features an interview on the issue.Guest: Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Cornell Medical Center, New York, www.commonwealthfund.org/programs/insurance/quinn_wobenefits_370.asp
ROSARIO ROBLES. An interview with Rosario Robles, first woman to govern Mexico City and a major enclave in the nation. Robles, of the center-left Partido de la Revolución Democrática, talks with Paco Huerta, Línea Abierta's weekly contributor in México City.
April
25 , 2000
OPENING DOORS OF HIGHER ED. Florida, Texas and California banned consideration of race and gender in state contracting and university admissions. In Texas, the legislature passed instead a plan that entitles the top ten percent of high school graduates in Texas to attend the state university campuses. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reviews the percentage plan.Guests: TBA. www.uscr.gov/percent/main.htm
IMMIGRATION EDITION - Attorney Carlos Spector-Calderón, expert on immigration and nationality law, joins this weekly program from El Paso. In addition to answering listener calls, Spector-Calderón reviews the latest news updates and changes in immigration law.
April
26 , 2000
FAMILY FARMERS. Small farmers from the San Joaquin Valley in California share their dreams and frustrations in a series of interviews. They would never trade their work for any other, but complain about the economy, the middlemen, big ag, and the market forces that are making them a vanishing species. These conversations are part of an oral history project by Samuel Orozco entitled "In This Land."
MEXICO'S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, Vicente Fox, Francisco Labastida, Manuel Camacho Solis, Porfirio Munoz Ledo and Gilberto Rincon Gallardo, the contenders running for Mexico's presidency, face each other in their first electoral debate. This program offers news and analysis on the day after the televised debate.
Guest: Francisco Huerta, Voz Pública, Radio Fórmula
April
27,
2000
PUERTO RICO EDITION - WRTU - Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico provides interviews and analysis on news developments impacting the Caribbean basin.HOST: Cándida Coto.
MEXICO EDITION. Francisco "Paco" Huerta, winner of the National Journalism Award in 1983, is a veteran radio journalist and program host. He offers this weekly, tape-delayed edition of the series "Voz Pública," a call-in program airing in Mexico City.HOST: Francisco Huerta, www.vozpublica.com
April
28 ,
2000
HEALTH AT THE BORDER. This two-hour roundtable discussion is broadcast live from the site of the conference of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health in San Diego. Policymakers, health providers and community advocates discuss issues common to the millions of people living in poverty on both sides of the border area. Tuberculosis, HIV and substance abuse are diseases often found there. Maquiladoras also bring the challenges of air and water pollution and chemical exposure. This program is produced in partnership with Radio Tecnológico from Tijuana/San Diego.
April
29,
2000
HEALTH CARE DISPARITIES. This roundtable takes place before a live plenary audience at the conference of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health in San Diego. This special edition looks into issues such as expanding health care coverage to the uninsured, health services for all children, strengthening Medicare and long-term care for the elderly, and others. This special coverage is broadcast in conjunction with XHITT-FM, Radio Tecnológico, in Tijuana.Guests: Congressman Xavier Becerra, Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nelba Chávez, top administrator of the federal agency on substance abuse. Others TBA.
May
1,
2000
HEALTH EDITION. Dr. Elmer Huerta joins this edition every two weeks to comment on new developments in the medical field. Dr. Huerta also answers listeners' health concerns. Comments on this Labor Day edition focus on occupational health and safety.Guest: Dr. Elmer Huerta, Oncologist, George Washington Hospital, www.prevencion.org
FARMWORKERS. Mexican immigrants in the state of Washington filed a lawsuit against two fruit companies claiming the growers conspired to hire undocumented farmworkers in a maneuver to depress wages. This is announced as the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S
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