Week # 31-96, Air Date 7/28/1996 - 8/3/1996

Segment #1: Tortilla Blues. Sandina Robbins reports from Mexico City on the changes affecting that nation's tortilla industry. 5:02

Subject Types: Economics

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions - Mexico

Segment #2: Diamond Walnut Strike. Reese Erlich reports on union efforts in northern California to improve the lives of workers at a walnut packing company. 4:20

Subject Types: Other - Labor

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

Segment #3: Film Review: Lone Star. Latino USA's Maria Martin speaks with film professor Charles Ramirez Berg about a new motion picture shot on location at the U.S./Mexico border: John Sayle's Lone Star. 5:05

Subject Types: Arts - Visual

Segment #4: Profile: Los Pleneros. Latino USA's Mario Murillo profiles a Puerto Rican musical ensemble which specializes in a Caribbean style known as 'Bomba y Plena.' 4:10

Subject Types: Arts - Music

Locations: U.S. Regions - Puerto Rico