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Crossing the Border from Mexico to the U.S., Part 2 8:41 Scott Carrier

Reports on undocumented immigrants who make the journey across the U.S.-Mexico border. In the first of this three-part series, we visit a remote border location in Arizona, where immigrants brave a dangerous stretch of desert in search of a better life. [transcript]

Broadcast: Aug 26 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Crossing the Border: Mexico to the U.S. Subjects: Justice, International, Hispanic, Labor

Crossing the Border from Mexico to the U.S., Part 1 8:30 Scott Carrier

Reports on undocumented immigrants who make the journey across the U.S.-Mexico border. In the first of this three-part series, we visit a remote border location in Arizona, where immigrants brave a dangerous stretch of desert in search of a better life. [transcript]

Broadcast: Aug 25 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Crossing the Border: Mexico to the U.S. Subjects: Justice, Labor, International, Hispanic

Cover of Juarez book: man climbing over border fence

Juarez 5: Easy to Forget 8:44 Scott Carrier

The ongoing struggle to solve the numerous murders that plague the border town. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 19 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: Hispanic, International, Justice

Juarez 4: Juarezland 5:13 Scott Carrier

Tourists and natives alike can get caught up the drug trade pervading Ciudad Juarez, a city on the U.S.-Mexico border just across the Rio Grande from Texas. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 12 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: International, Hispanic, Entertainment, Travel

Juarez 3: Maquiladoras 7:57 Scott Carrier

In the third segment of this series on the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, we go to the factories called "maquiladoras" and their surrounding neighborhoods. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 5 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: Business, International, Hispanic, Labor

Juarez 2: Gangs 8:43 Scott Carrier

City on the Edge: Profiles of the people of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez -- a place troubled by rampant poverty and corruption, where violence is a daily fact of life. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 28 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: International, Hispanic, Justice

Juarez 1: Poverty in the Global Economy 8:44 Scott Carrier

City on the Edge; Part 1:A series of reports from "the laboratyory of the future": Juarez, Mexico, a town on the broder. Sez Charles Bowden: "If you have questions about what the global econony will eventuate in, go to Juarez. What we call the global economy -- no tariff, barriers, etc -- has been running there since the 60s. You have a 40-year record, and what it�s produced is one of the most violent cities in the world." [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 21 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: Hispanic, International, Justice

Spirits of the Ordinary 6:02 Dmae Roberts

Crypto-Jews or hidden Jews are Sephaerdic Jews who emigrated to Mexico and other parts of Latin America to escape the Inquisition in the 1500�s. Many Latinos don�t even know their Jewish origins even though they might speak Ladino (mixture of Hebrew and Portugese and Spanish) and use Jewish chants in what they thought were exclusively Catholic services. Kathleen Alcala stumbled upon her Jewish origins and wrote Spirits of the Ordinary, a novel about her family history -- now a play in Portland. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 15 2003 on NPR Latino USA Subjects: Hispanic, International, Religious, Entertainment

Radio Liberacion 24:19 Nancy Updike

A clandestine radio station set up by the CIA set up in the fifties, to overthrow Guatemala�s government. The coup success was in part due to power of radio. Or that�s what the CIA believed. For the first time in the USA, we hear the recently declassified broadcasts.

Broadcast: Nov 1 2001 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: Hispanic, Politics, Technology, War

The Parking Lot 6:36 Carmen Delzell

Let off the bus at 5 a.m. with $5 at the 24-hour supermarket. "Sometimes the difference between a traveler and a homeless person is hard to define." An audio postcard from deep in the hearts and minds of Mexico.

Broadcast: Jul 1 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Travel, Hispanic