Week # 51-93, Air Date 12/19/1993 - 12/25/1993

Segment #1 Ancel Martinez reports from the border communities of Calexico and Mexicali on how border businesses are gearing up for NAFTA. 4:38

Subject Types: Economics

Locations: U.S. Regions - West; States - California; Non-U.S. Regions - Mexico

Segment #2: Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa speaks with political science professor David Ayon about the successor to Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. 4:24

Subject Types: Elections; Politics

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions - Mexico

Segment #3 Nina Teischolz profiles Sergio and Odair Assad, known as the world's greatest guitar duo. 4:13

Subject Types: Arts - Music

Segment #4. Writer Juan Filipe Herrera reviews a new Latino mystery novel, 'The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz' by Manuel Ramos. 4:12

Subject Types: Arts - Literature

Segment #5: Marta Valentin has a remembrance of one of the many Latinas who have died of AIDS. 1:43

Subject Types: Health