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Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on high interest payments on Brazil's national debt, which total four times the value of that nation's coffee exports: a review of U.S. moves to normalize relations with Bolivia for the first time since the military coup of July 1980; a story on Antigua-Barbuda, which has become the thirty-fourth nation in the Western Hemisphere. Interview: Reporter Anne Nelson looks at the risky business of providing press coverage in Central America. Recorded:...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at Brazil's shift from an importer of technology to an exporter of advanced industrial goods and services; a story on Trinidad and Tobago's recently elected prime minister, George Chambers, the first new leader of that nation in twenty-five years. Interview: The conclusion of an interview with Anne Nelson, a journalist and photographer, who provides an inside view of the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. press coverage of Central America. Recorded:...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: An analysis of discouraging economic trends in Latin America; a report on setbacks in Argentina's gradual return to democratic rule, a look at the long reign of Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, and that nation's future political prospects. Interview: Patricia Salinas, professor of community and regional planning at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses the use and abuse of Mexico's oil revenues for development. Recorded: November 19, 1981 Final...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on a murder conviction in Brazil that has focused attention on women's rights in that nation; a look at increasing emigration from Argentina and its relation to economic problems; a story on the resignation of the Nicaraguan ambassador to die U.S., Arturo Cruz. and how that reflects the precarious relations between the United States and Nicaragua. Interview: Arnoldo Ramos, a representative to the U.S. of El Salvador's Revolutionary Democratic Front, discusses that...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A story on Bolivia's plans to join the ranks of free market economies tin South America: a report on Caribbean frustrations with the Reagan administration's Caribbean Basin initiative. Interview: A discussion on the use and abuse of communications in development with two Florida State University experts, communications professor John Mayo, and economics and education professor Steven Klees. Recorded: December 9, 1981 Final Production: December 11,...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A story on the new United Nations secretary general from Peru, Javier Pérez de Cuellar; a report on the removal from office of Argentine president General Roberto Viola, and the impact that could have on the country's domestic and foreign policies: and a report on the feuding between Nicaragua and the United States at the 11th Annual Assembly of the Organization of American States. Interview: Joseph Bastien, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington,...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A story on the increasing number of Hispanic Americans in top-level government jobs in the Reagan administration; a look at how shrimp farming has become an important export industry for several Latin American nations; and a report on a modern-day gold rush in the Brazilian Amazon. Interview: Joseph Bastien, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington, concludes his discussion on the Collahualla medicine men of Bolivia. Recorded: December...

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Contents: Report: A special report on Central America and the differing perceptions of the current turmoil in the region. A special production from the Third Annual Editors? Conference of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution.

Recorded: December 18, 1981

Final Production: December 18, 1981

[Air Date]: January 20, 1982

Timings: p.o. 28:54

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on the withdrawal of the Peace Corps from Chile and how that marks the end of an era for the volunteer organization; a look at the impact of the Reagan administration's hard-line policy toward Haitian refugees; and a story on a new electoral law in Brazil that indicates yet another setback for that nation's democratization process. Interview: Enrique Mayer, an anthropologist and the director of research at the Instituto Indigenista Interarnericano in Mexico City,...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at the widespread protests over economic policy in Cuba, which prompted the removal of two ministers in the Castro government; a story on how the Mexican government has doubled the price of gasoline to cut excessive fuel consumption; and a report oh a robbery of ore-Columbian artifacts in Peru, which has raised questions about the preservation of the nation's artistic heritage. Interview: Anthropologist Enrique Mayer concludes his discussion on coca and Pew's efforts...