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Schools, drug policy, and border security. How the current budget battle affects Latino communities.

Earlier this month President George W. Bush submitted his budget proposal to the U.S. Congress. Toping the budget list for the president were military and homeland security issues, along with an economic stimulus package. The president's proposals for helping the sluggish economy are currently being debated heavily in Congress.

When President Bush first took office he declared that he would be 'the education president.' Latinos educators from around the country are now gathered in Miami for the Fourth Annual U.S. Conference on Educating Hispanics. Joining us to examine how the federal budget affects Latinos and education are Dr. Samuel Betances, a sociologist and president of the conference, and retired LTC. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, a motivational speaker who works on education issues with Latinos.

Latinos at the Winter Olympics. In Salt Lake City, Utah speed skater Derek Parra became the first Mexican American ever to capture a medal in the Winter Olympic Games. Parra took the silver in the 3k speed skating event. As this program goes to air, Parra and other Latino athletes were entering the second week of competition. We wanted to check on the Latino presence at this year's game, so we are joined by Elaine Rivera who is writing about the scene in Utah for MSNBC's website.

A new PBS documentary reexamines the brutal murder of four American church women in El Salvador and the retired Salvadoran generals now living in Florida. As the world's attention is now focused on the trial of former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic, a new PBS documentary looks at the human rights abuses of other government and military officials, this time in El Salvador. In the late 1980's the bodies of four American church women were found, their exhumation captured by television cameras and seen around the world, and now the focus of a PBS documentary 'Justice and the Generals.' The film follows the 20 yr struggle of torture victims and their families fighting for resolution and justice. Perhaps most remarkable the film also includes those allegedly responsible for the murders.

The issue of human rights and Latin American military leaders is not unique to Central America. Mexican President Vicente Fox recently pardoned an army general who was imprisoned for 8 years for simply speaking out and publicly criticizing the Mexican military for its human rights record. The move is seen as an attempt by Fox to live up to his campaign promises to clean up Mexico's human rights record, but the general says his case is not over yet.