Week # Air Date, 12/26/2005

Segment #1: KANSAS CITY SCHOOL SUIT

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with student Zacharias Rubio, his father Lorenzo Rubio, and their attorney Chuck Chionuma on their civil rights suit against a Kansas City school district. (Self-contained 4:39)

Segment #2: IMMIGRANT SOLDIERS NATURALIZED

According to department of defense figures, more than 25,000 members of the U.S. military are not U.S. citizens. As these non-citizens return from the war in Iraq, many are coming home to become citizens of the nation they fought to defend. Michael Hagerty from NPR member station KWBU in Waco, Texas, has more. (2:39)

Segment #3: BOLIVIA ELECTION 2-WAY

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with photojournalist Noah Friedman Rudovsky on the December 18 Bolivian presidential elections. (Self-contained 3:50)

Segment #4: LOS GRANDES: LOS FOLKLORISTAS

For more than a year now, Latino USA has been presenting its special series, 'Los Grandes de Mexico.' This week, we'll turn to the indigenous roots of Latino music with the renowned group, Los Folkloristas. For the past four decades, Los Folkloristas have been researching, recording and touring the world with an amazing repertoire of music from throughout Mexico and Latin America. Producer Sandina Robbins has this feature on Mexico's culture ambassadors, Los Folkloristas. (6:20)