From Mexico to US, a Tale of Two Countries in this (((Hearing Voices))) Cinco de Mayo special. Your guide Marcos Martinez, of KUNM-Albuquerque, plays some border radio: Poet Luis Alberto Urrea delivers his "Hymn to Vatos Who Will Never Appear in a Poem" and travels "The Devil's Highway," from his book about death in the desert. In "Sasabe," a Sonora, Mexico border town, Scott Carrier talks to immigrants along their hazardous, illegal desert crossing, and to the border patrol waiting for them in Sasabe, Arizona. "And I walked..." (with Charles Bowden) is a border-crossing sound-portrait by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler, from the Third Coast Festival's ShortDocs series. Guillermo Gómez-Peña gives a "Citizenship Lesson," from his CD Borderless Radio, and imagines "Maquiladoras of the Future," fantasy border factories. And One-minute Vacation podcasts (QuietAmerican.org) a Saint Jude's festival in the highlands of Michoacan recorded by Siamack Sioshansi, and evening mass at the Church of Carmen Alta in Oaxaca City recorded by Bronwyn Ximm. More audio, info and links...
Broadcast: May 5 2006 on HV SpecialSeries: Hearing Voices- Specials
Subjects: Hispanic, International, Specials, Justice
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Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler
