Box 11 LSF

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on Perónist leader Abal Medina. who has been denied exit from Argentina and has spent five years trapped in the Mexican embassy in Buenos Aires; an analysis of the resignation of one of the most influential figures in the Brazilian government, former chief of staff of the cabinet, General Golbery do Couto e Silva; a report on fears in Puerto Rico that the Reagan administration's economic policy may force a mass exodus from the Commonwealth. Interview: The final...

Scope and Contents Contents: 40 Report: A story on the U.S. veto of an Interamerican Bank loan to Guyana: a report on the Mexican and French recognition of the leftist opposition in El Salvador; a look at Chiles human rights record which is once again the olect of international criticism. Interview: Richard Bauman, professor of anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses the significance of the festival tradition in Latin America. Recorded: n/a Final Production:...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on a site in Brazil so polluted that residents call it the ?Valley of Death?; an analysis of a controversial report on Nicaragua by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; a look at the floundering land reform program in El Salvador and its effect on that nation's economy. Interview: the former assistant director of El Salvador's land reform institute, Leonel Gomez, discusses flaws and corruption in his nation's agrarian reform. Recorded:...

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Contents: Report: A special report on the world economic summit at Cancun, Mexico, where the leaders of twenty-two developed and developing countries will gather to discuss North-South issues and Third World poverty.

Recorded: September 23, 1981

Final Production: September 25, 1981

[Air Date]: October 14, 1981

Timings: p.o. 28:39

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: An analysis of the problems that will confront a newly independent Belize: a look at corruption in Mexico and how the unprecedented resignation of a state governor on charges of graft may signal a change in official policy; a report on how the timing of the announcement of the official presidential candidate in Mexico may have a significance of its own. Interview: Dale Story, assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas at Arlington, discusses the...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A story on the interim president of Brazil, Aureliano Chavez, who substituted for the ailing João Figueiredo and temporarily interrupted seventeen years of military rule in the nation; a look at congressional restrictions on U.S. aid to El Salvador, a harsh blow for the Duarte government: a report on Costa Rica, a traditionally stable Central American government, which is currently threatened by economic crisis. Interview: Kevin McIntyre, a desk officer with the U.S. State...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at the controversy in Brazil over the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification church, which is widely perceived as a threat to the Brazilian family; a review of joint efforts b the United States and Haiti to crack down on illegal migration; a story on a small group of Haitian refugees who received an unexpectedly luxurious reception when they arrived in New Orleans. Interview: Argentine political scientist Oscar Oszlak talks about free-market economics under authoritarian...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at proposals to establish Radio Marti, a station designed to beam U.S. radio propaganda into Cuba; a report on the problems faced by human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in his native Argentina; a story on the controversial confession of a Jesuit priest in Guatemala who claims involvement in guerrilla activities. Interview: Brian Smith, a Jesuit priest and political scientist at MIT, discusses liberation theology and the growing conflict...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on Vice-President George Bush's recent tour of Latin America, and the response to his appeal for anticommunism and Reaganomics; an analysis of moves by Colombia to raise its diplomatic profile in the Caribbean; a report on the U.S. decision to end its opposition to sales of enriched uranium to Brazil. Interview: E. V. K. Fitzgerald economist and adviser to the Nicaraguan Planning Ministry, examines the political and economic situation in Nicaragua....

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on Venezuela's mandatory draft registration for women; a look at a report by the Inter-American Development Bank on the ?subtle revolution? in women's rights throughout Latin America; a story on the first democratically elected president in Honduras in nearly eighteen years. Interview: Mike Conroy; economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, examines some of the problems that will face the new Honduran government. Recorded: November 4,...