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Week # 46-94, Air Date 11/13/1994 - 11/19/1994

 File — Box: 33, Item: 82

Scope and Contents

Segment #1: Sandina Robbins reports from Mexico City on a number of pirate radio stations attempting to challenge the governments monopoly of the Mexican media. 5:20

Subject Types: Media

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions - Mexico

Segment #2: Deborah Begel reports from northern New Mexico on the reaction of that state's Latino ranchers to a set of proposed regulations governing grazing of sheep and cattle. 4:40

Subject Types: Economics; Other - Agriculture

Locations: U.S. Regions - Southwest; States - New Mexico

Segment #3: Producer Betto Arcos has a sound portrait of 72 year-old Manuel Vega, who, like many elderly Cuban men living in Miami, passes many hours playing dominoes in a park in Little Havana. 2:27

Subject Types: Other - elderly

Locations: U.S. Regions - Southeast; States - Florida

Segment #4: Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa speaks with writer Demetria Martinez about her new book, 'Mother Tongue', which tells the story of the difficult love of a young Chicana for a political refugee from El Salvador. 5:35

Subject Types: Arts - Literature

Dates

  • Creation: Air Date 11/13/1994 - 11/19/1994

Repository Details

Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository

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