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Program Number: 27
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Contents: Report: An examination of two important trends relating to international business in Latin America. Interviews: Russell Marks, president of the Americas Society, discusses the growth of political risk analysis as a tool for foreign investors, and Norene Janus, a staff researcher at ILET, the Latin American Institute for Transnational Studies in Mexico City, examines the transnational advertising industry and its impact on Latin American societies. Recorded: n/a...
Program Number: 28
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Contents: Report: A story on a U.S. federal court's ruling against the Reagan administration's ban on most travel to Cuba; a report on Brazil's efforts to strengthen relations with neighboring Surinam as a means of reducing Cuban influence there; a look at how some Latin American exporters are profiting from illegal coffee shipments, in violation of the International Coffee Agreement. Interview: Alvaro Valencia Tovar, former commander?in-chief of the Colombian armed forces, and Enrique...
Program Number: 29
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Contents: Report: A look at the continuing troubles of Cuban refugees who fled the island in the 1980 Mariel boatlift; a report on the disasters caused in South America this year by changes in the Pacific Ocean current known as ?El Nino?; a story on hyperinflation in Argentina, and some of the devious ways in which Argentines deal with the phenomenon. Interview: Alvaro Valencia Tovar and Enrique Santos Calderon conclude their discussion on Colombian politics and evaluate the first year in...
Program Number: 30
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Contents: Report: A story on ?Brazilqate?, a case of high?level internal espionage that has shaken the political hopes of several top Brazilian officials; a look at Argentina's massive rearmament program in the wake of the Falklands/Malvinas war; a report on the tightening of Mexican immigration policy toward Guatemalan refugees. Interview: Malcolm Greenstein, a representative of the National Lawyers Guild, describes his fact?finding trip to Guatemalan refugee camps in southern Mexico and...
Program Number: 31
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Contents: Report: A story on Argentine beef consumption, and how it has declined with the nation's economic and political troubles; a report on the surprising defeat suffered by Mexico's official party, the PRI, in municipal elections in northern Mexico; a look at Mexican ?telenovelas? or soap operas, and their new found concern with social issues; an examination of Mexico's multi?lingual Indian radio system. Interview: Robert White, director of research at the Centre for the Study of...
Program Number: 32
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Contents: Report: A special discussion on the speech and language ?dramas? of the Cuna Indians of Panama with anthropologist Joel Sherzer of the University of Texas at Austin. Sherzer plays recordings of ritual speech among the Cuna and describes the significance of this language in Cuna society. Recorded: n/a Final Production: n/a For Play: [Monday, August 8, 1983 - Sunday, August 14, 1983] [Air Date]: August 10, 1983 Timings: p.o....
Program Number: 33
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Contents: Report: A special report on the plight of Central American refugees in the United States as seen through the eyes of two critics of U.S. immigration policy-Lisa Brodyaga, an attorney working with refugees in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, and Jim Corbett, an Arizona rancher who has received national attention for his efforts to help undocumented Central Americans elude capture. Recorded: n/a Final Production: n/a [Air Date]: Monday, August...
Program Number: 34
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Contents: Report: A report on the Contadora group's recent Declaration of Cancun, a ten-point peace plan for Central America; a look at accusations that Nicaragua's Sandinista government is persecuting the country's tiny Jewish community; a special report on the prospects for Central America, featuring various presentations from the annual editors? conference of the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution. Speakers include Francisco Villagran Kramer, Efrain Diaz, Pedro Joaquin...
Program Number: 35
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Contents: Report: A look at Brazil's difficult negotiations with the IMF over the terms of a fiscal austerity package and the possible social repercussions of that plan; a special report on the origins and impact of Latin America's debt crisis from speakers at the annual Wilson Center Editors? Conference in Washington. Speakers include Pedro Pablo Kucynski, Robert Solomon, Peter Smith, Sergio Bitar, and Al Stepan. Recorded: n/a Final Production: n/a For...
Program Number: 36
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Contents: Report: A special report on astronomy in the ancient Americas. Dr. John Carlson, the director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy at the University of Maryland and one of the world's foremost experts on native American astronomy, examines the nature and importance of astronomy in pre?Columbian civilizations, and the controversy over the Grolier Codex, an ancient Maya manuscript. Recorded: n/a Final Production: n/a For Play: Monday, September 5,...