Week # Air Date, 9/03/2006

Segment #1 SECURITY GUARDS TURNED SOLDIERS

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with reporter Isabel Ordonez on private military firms in Latin America. (Self-contained 7:20)

Segment #2 BOLIVIA'S EVO MORALES AND U.S. TRADE

Since taking office in January, Bolivia's first indigenous president has followed through on the socialist-style promises that helped get him elected. Evo Morales has cut public sector salaries and nationalized the natural gas industry. Such moves make Washington wary of Morales'and his close ties with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Cuban President Fidel Castro haven't won him any fans with the Bush administration. But around the issue of trade with the U.S., Morales treads more lightly. Latino USA contributor Sarah Bush reports that regardless of ideology, Morales is trying to strike a strategic deal that's more in like with practical economics. (4:27)

Segment #3 KATRINA ANNIVERSARY: MISSISSIPPI

After the destruction caused a year ago now by Hurricane Katrina, there were worries that Mexican and Central American workers would flood into the region to assist in the clean-up effort. Well, those worries seem to have been well-founded as this appears to have been the case. The city of Waveland, Mississippi was a Ground Zero during last year's deadly Hurricane Katrina. More than 90 percent of the homes and businesses were substantially destroyed. The task of rebuilding attracted thousands of workers, mostly from Mexico, who now find food and comfort in a small shop that caters exclusively to them. Rolondo Arrieta was recently in Waveland and filed this report. (4:02)

Segment #4 KATRINA ANNIVERSARY: NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin popularized the term 'Chocolate City' to describe the African-American ethnic makeup of his city. But commentator Jose Torres Tama says huge sections of the city now seem more like an 'Enchilada Village.' (2:16)