Week # 16-98, Air Date 4/19/1998 - 4/25/1998

Segment #1: SENATE HEARINGS ON PUERTO RICAN POLITICAL STATUS. Latino USA's Patricia Guadalupe reports on informal Senate hearings regarding Puerto Rico's political status. (2:42)

Subject Types: Other - Politics; Politics

Locations: U.S. Regions - Puerto Rico

Segment #2: US MILITARY PRESENCE IN PUERTO RICO. Latino USA's Mario Murillo reports on the US military presence in Puerto Rico, focusing on the debate over the naval base on Vieques Island. (5:15)

Subject Types: Other - Politics; Politics

Locations: U.S. Regions - Puerto Rico

Segment #3: POET NAOMI AYALA: A COQUI EN NUEVA YORK. Puerto Rican writer Naomi Ayala shares a poem on Puerto Rican identity. This is the first in a series in observance of National Poetry Month. (1:52)

Subject Types: Arts - Literature

Locations: U.S. Regions - Puerto Rico

Segment #4: BLACK & WHITE IN EXILE: INTERVIEW WITH RAY BLANCO. Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa interviews filmmaker Ray Blanco, who produced the documentary series 'Black and White in Exile'-- about Cuban and Haitian immigration to the US. airing on local PBS stations (3:50)

Subject Types: Arts - Visual; Media

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions - Cuba

Segment #5: DENISE CHAVEZ REMEMBERS JIM SAGEL. Writer Denise Chavez has a remembrance of the life of New Mexico poet and writer Jim Sagel, who died in New Mexico in April 1998, at the age of fifty. (5:23)

Subject Types: Arts - Literature

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