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March 1, 1999

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MEATPACKING HOUSES. A roundtable to discuss issues of health and safety in the meatpacking industry in the Mid West. Union leaders lobby in favor of new ergonomic rules to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome and other injuries from work that requires repetitive motions.

Invited guests: Industry rep, labor union leader, medical expert, meatpacking worker.

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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.

March 2, 1999

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PST PUERTO RICO EDITION - WRTU - Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, provides interviews and analysis on news developments impacting the Caribbean basin. This week, the program reports on a lawsuit on behalf of a group of children against the baby-food giant Gerber. The company faces charges of releasing products tainted with cancer-producing substances.

HOST: Cándida Coto.

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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

March 3, 1999

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NEWS REVIEW. Correspondents from around the nation and Mexico provide news reports on developments making headlines throughout the country.

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PRIMARIES. This program offers news analysis on Supertuesday the March 7 primaries in California, New York, Ohio and other states. The program also reviews the presidential campaigns and the process to elect delegates to the party conventions.

March 6, 1999

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HEALTH EDITION - DR. ELMER HUERTA. Regular commentator Dr. Elmer E. Huerta joins this edition to look into the news of the week in the medical field. Dr. Huerta also answers listeners' concerns on their personal health and lifestyles.

Guest: Dr. Elmer E. Huerta, www.prevencion.org

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ENSEMBLE KALINDA. A conversation with a leading member of the Chicago-based musical group "Ensemble Kalinda." The group brings Latin American, West Indian, and U.S. black music together in their CD "Kalinda Kaliente." Their repertoire includes bolero, merengue, capoeira, bomba, songo, calypso, and more.

Guest: Miguel Rivera, musical director, Ensemble Kalinda, www.oceanrec.com

March 7, 1999

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SUPER TUESDAY. On this day, primary presidential elections take place in key states such as California, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, and others. This program offers news reports on voter turnout and analysis on major issues, candidates, campaign developments and Latino voter turnout.

Guests: Antonio Gonzalez, executive director, South West Voter Registration Project, Los Angeles; and Herson Borrero, director, El Diario-La Prensa, New York

1:00-2:00 p.m. PST
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.

March 8, 1999

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PRIMARIES RESULTS. This program offers news on the results of the Super Tuesday presidential primaries and an analysis on the influence of the Latino activism and on the anticipated growth of the Latino vote. Also, a conversation with an international observer from Mexico, invited by the organization Global Exchange to witness Tuesday's primaries in California.

Guests: Arturo Vargas, executive director, National Association of Latino Elected Officials, NALEO, www.naleo.org; also, a Global Exchange representative.

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FAIR HOUSING. Civil-rights advocates launch a campaign to promote fair housing rights awareness among immigrants. This program discusses home rental or purchase rejections, exclusion zones, home sales ads, and other common questions.

Guest: Melissa Barrios, California Rural Legal Assistance, www.crlaf.org, Fresno, CA

March 9, 1999

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PST PUERTO RICO EDITION - WRTU - Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, provides interviews and analysis on news developments impacting the Caribbean basin. This week, the program reports on a lawsuit on behalf of a group of children against the baby-food giant Gerber. The company faces charges of releasing products tainted with cancer-producing substances.

HOST: Cándida Coto.

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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

March 10, 1999

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IRASEMA T. GARZA. A conversation with Irasema T. Garza, recently confirmed as director of the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau. She is in charge of "promoting the welfare of wage earning women" and advocating for women in the workforce. This program focuses on the efforts to encourage women to enter high-paying, high-opportunity nontraditional jobs.

Guest: Irasema T. Garza, www.dol.gov/dol/wb

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NEWS REVIEW. A recap on the primary elections results in California, New York, Ohio, Massachusetts and other states. News correspondents file reports on other news developments as well.

March 13, 1999

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END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS. A roundtable discussion will explore how to prepare for our final days and what choices to make when facing a chronic or terminal illness. Issues include how to define quality of life as you near the end of life, and how to discuss death and dying issues within the beliefs, views and customs of the Latino community.

Guests: Dr. Glennah Trochet, Sacramento County Health Office Board and Sacramento Health Care Decisions, Chaplain Felipe Martinez; and Mrs. Maria Serna, sister of late Sacramento Mayor Jose Serna, Jr, who recently died of cancer.

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THE CENSUS COUNT. This week the U.S. Census Bureau is sponsoring "Teach Census Week." California's Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante has taken this opportunity to insist that all information provided on the census forms remains confidential. This program also looks into questions of ethnicity and race that are included in the census forms.

Guest: John Flores, U.S. Census Bureau, California.

March 14, 1999

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NEWS REVIEW. The judge in the case of Cuban child ELIAN GONZALEZ has postponed a decision on a request to prevent the INS from returning him to his Cuban father.

ALSO, PINOCHET STILL ON TRIAL. A Chilean judge wants to strip Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution and seeks to investigate seventy complaints of torture, murder and kidnaping against the former president/current senator-for-life. Commentators look into the case, the process of withdrawing immunity and the political climate under the incoming government of Socialist President Ricardo Lagos in Chile.

ALSO, MINIMUM WAGE proposals hotly debated in Congress.

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"THE UPSIDE DOWN BOY." Poet and writer Juan Felipe Herrera talks about his most recent storybook for children entitled "The Upside Down Boy." Herrera, a professor at California State University Fresno, also comments on his poetry novel "Crash Boom Love."

Guest: Juan Felipe Herrera, CSUF, Fresno.

March 15, 1999

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MARIACHI "LOS CAMPEROS" DE NATI CANO. A conversation with maestro Nati Cano, a veteran musician, who is founder and director of Mariachi Los Camperos from Los Angeles, a group dedicated to promoting traditional songs of the mariachi music genre in the U.S. The group will headline the most traditional Mexican folk music festival in Central California.

Guest: Nati Cano, founder/director, Mariachi Los Camperos, Los Angeles.

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IMMIGRATION EDITION. Attorney Carlos Spector-Calderon, an authority on immigration and nationality law, joins this weekly program from El Paso. In addition to answering listener calls, Spector-Calderon reviews the latest news updates and changes in immigration law. This week, he comments on the boat wreck that resulted in the death of more than ten Dominican migrants and the halting of the Border Patrol's reported raids in the interior.

March 16, 1999

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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.

1:00-2:00 p.m. PST
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

March 17, 1999

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DOWN IN FLORIDA. Florida's civil rights groups are taking to the streets, marching to protest a recent order by Gov. Jeb Bush to end affirmative action. Some consider this clash his worst crisis and anticipate that fallout from the conflict may spill into the presidential campaign of his brother, George W. Bush.

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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS IN MEXICO. his program reports on news developments surrounding the electoral campaigns of the frontrunners in the race for the presidency in Mexico. A review of the issues and trends will be aired as we near July's presidential election.

March 20, 1999

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HEALTH EDITION. Dr. Elmer Huerta, a regular commentator and expert on cancer, joins this edition from Washington, DC, to bring news about developments in the medical field and to answer questions from listeners on health concerns.

Guest: Dr. Elmer Huerta, www.prevencion.org

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MARIACHI RENAISSANCE. Mariachi music is experiencing a renaissance spurred in part by a movement of Mexican folk music festivals that began in the U.S. in the late seventies. Jalisco state, the cradle of the mariachis in Western Mexico, followed suit with festivals and museums honoring the music that is now a symbol of Mexican nationality. This program looks into these grassroots efforts in the highlands of Jalisco.

Guest: Jonathan Clark, musicologist; Alicia Rodriguez, Directora de Museos Regionales de Jalisco, Guadalajara

March 21, 1999

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IMMIGRATION EDITION - Attorney Carlos Spector-Calderon, an authority on immigration and nationality law, joins this weekly program from El Paso. In addition to answering listener calls, Spector-Calderon reviews the latest news updates and changes in immigration law.

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RACIAL PROFILING. Civil rights and grassroots groups in California are launching a statewide campaign against racial profiling. Through town hall meetings and mass demonstrations, the new coalition was founded after Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill called the "DWB (Driving While Black or Brown) bill." The bill required police agencies to collect data regarding the race and ethnicity of people stopped by the police.

Guest: Marcos Contreras, League of United Latin American Citizens LULAC

March 22, 1999

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DOCTOR TRAINING. Applications and enrollment for African-American and Latino students are way down at public medical schools in California. This trend threatens to reduce even more the access of communities of color to health care. This program focuses on an initiative named "Medicos del Pueblo." The program is part of a series of roundtables in conjunction with KQED in San Francisco.

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HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN GUATEMALA. Sister Diana Ortiz, a nun who was abducted and tortured while serving as a schoolteacher in Guatemala, continues to demand from the U.S. government a full disclosure of records related to the abuses against her and any other information about CIA participation in human rights abuses in Guatemala. She is also pressuring Congress and the White House to amend the Freedom of Information Act to prevent concealment of data related to human rights violations.

Guests: Carmen Camey, Comite de Derechos Humanos de Guatemala; and a feature report on Sister Diana Ortiz; other guests TBA.

March 23, 1999

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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.

1:00-2:00 p.m. PST
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

March 24, 1999

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MARIACHI MEXICO DE PEPE VILLA. Mariachi Mexico de Pepe Villa was founded by the late Pepe Villa in 1948, adding to the music one more trumpet and three voices, and promoting a repertoire of northern polkas. This group, a headliner for Radio Bilingue's "Viva el Mariachi!" Festival, has performed with Jorge Negrete, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Lola Beltran, Pedro Vargas, La Prieta Linda and other greats.

Guest: Pepe Villa Jr, musical director, Mariachi Mexico de Pepe Villa

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GAS PRICES INFLATION. Lawmakers, gasoline industry representatives and environmentalists are meeting to discuss solutions to the rising prices of gasoline in California. Drivers are getting angry. Sales are beginning to drop. President Clinton hints at action. This program looks into the market forces that are sending the gas prices up in the U.S. It also looks into moves in Congress to put pressure on oil-supplying nations to increase their oil output.

Guest: Dr. Jim Cipher, economist, California State University Fresno

March 27, 1999

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ASTHMA. The Latino population, and children in particular, is more likely to be exposed to environmental pollutants and factors that trigger asthma. However, they are also less likely to have access to medical care to treat it. The barriers exacerbate existing asthma conditions and increase the number of illnesses and hospitalizations from asthma. Some groups are calling on policy makers, health care providers and schools to address the issue.

Guest: Dr. Jane Delgado, executive director, National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Washington, DC, www.cossmho.org; Sandra Bellman, health educator, Sequoia Community Clinic, Fresno, CA; Guadalupe Valdez, deputy executive officer, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Los Angeles.

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CENSUS COUNT. This program is part of a special series focusing on efforts to prevent a repeat of the undercount that left out millions of Latinos and other disadvantaged populations in the 1990 Census. The program looks into the language of race, and why Census 2000 asks about race and ancestry. Also, questions of privacy are addressed, as well as the US Census Bureau work to recruit bilingual workers to walk neighborhoods and find uncounted people.

Guest: Christine Hernandez, Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dallas, TX; Carolina de Soto, Spokesperson, California Complete Count Committee.

March 28, 1999

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VICENTE FOX. A conversation with Mexican presidential candidate, Gov. Vicente Fox, a conservative businessman running under the Partido Acción Nacional ticket. Recent polls show Gov. Fox in a dead heat race with the candidate of the ruling party. This interview is the first in a series of interviews with the presidential candidates of the major political parties in Mexico.

Guest: Guanajuato Governor Vicente Fox, Mexican presidential candidate

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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.

March 29, 1999

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"LATINOS UNIDOS." This is an interview with Dr. Enrique (Henry) T. Trueba about his book "Latinos Unidos: From Cultural Diversity to the Politics of Solidarity." In his book, Trueba discusses the binational networks of a new generation of bilingual and bicultural Latinos who can function on both sides of the US/Mexico border.

Guest: Dr. Enrique (Henry) T. Trueba, R. Hinojosa Regents Professor, College of Education, University of Texas, Austin

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RAYMUNDO RIVA PALACIO. A well-known Mexican columnist, Riva-Palacio comments on the current presidential election campaigns in Mexico. What are the chances for an oppositionist government? Is Mexico's 70-year one-party system prepared to win this time? Is Mexico's regime changing during this process?

Guest: Raymundo Riva-Palacio, columnist, political analyst.

March 30, 1999

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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.

1:00-2:00 p.m. PST
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

March 31, 1999

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"LAS COLONIAS." A conversation with award-winning film maker Hector Galan on the premiere of his film "Las Colonias," a documentary on life in impoverished U.S. communities along the Mexican border. The film describes the conditions common to about 1400 unregulated settlements that often lack basic public services and have chronic health problems.

Guest: Hector Galan, independent film maker, documentarian for PBS

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CESAR CHAVEZ BIRTHDAY. Unionists and community activists nationwide mark the 73rd birthday of the late United Farm Workers Union founder Cesar Chavez. In California, the commemoration is takes place at a time when an initiative to declare the day a state paid holiday is pending in the Legislature. Paul F. Chavez, son of the late Cesar Chavez, talks about his father and his legacy.

Guest: Paul F. Chavez, president of the National Farm Workers Service Centers, United Farm Workers Union

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