Week # Air Date, 4/30/2006

Segment #1: MUSEUM EXHIBIT: AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEXICO

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa and radio producer Yolanda Perdomo tour the African Presence in Mexico exhibit at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago. (Self-contained 12:15)

Segment #2: MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Mexico's presidential campaign is turning negative. The front-runner, according to most polls, continues to be the former Mayor of Mexico City. He's a leftist politician named Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Now the other candidates are trying to portray him as a revolutionary. They're comparing him to Venezuela's firebrand leftist president, Hugo Chavez. Franc Contreras reports from Mexico City. (5:22)

Segment #3: Commentary: MARCHES FOR FREEDOM

Commentator Joe Pacheco participated in the 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington. And he found himself marching again in the recent immigrant-rights demonstrations, held across the country. (4:52)

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Joe Pacheco is the former superintendent of schools in New York City. He's now retired and lives on Sanibel Island, Florida.