Program Number: 10
Scope and Contents
Contents: Report: A report on how Mexico, the world's fifth-largest oil producer, may soon have to import gasoline; a look at PEMEX, the Mexican state oil monopoly, and its plans to begin oil exploration off the Cuban coast this year; a story on a planned oil pipeline across Panama that could ease traffic congestion in the canal and reduce the cost of oil to the American consumer an analysis of a Cabinet shakeup in Haiti that confirms a return to the regime's hard line policies toward political opposition. Interview: Congressmen Robert Edgar of Pennsylvania and Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, discuss their recent fact-finding trip to Central America and their criticism of current U.S. policy toward the region.
Recorded: February 13, 1981
Final Production: February 13, 1981
[Air Date]: March 4, 1981
Timings: v.o. 28:45, m.o. 29:00
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
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