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In Pima County, where Tucson is located, formerly incarcerated individuals and local government officials have joined efforts to send fewer people ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: :00
World in Progress this week: Where do we go from here?
People from Central America are leaving their home countries to escape poverty and dangerou...
Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and WNMU-FM
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Earlier this year, a revered newspaper in Argentina closed up shop after more than 140 years of publication. The Buenos Aires Herald was one of a r...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 12:34
Building a wall between the United States and Mexico was a signature plank of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. His win in November is bringing...
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 01:01:42
Is ‘looking Mexican’ a legal reason for the Border Patrol to stop a car? Federal law says agents have to have ‘reasonable suspicion’ that something...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KUOW, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 4
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas
- Added: Aug 17, 2013
- Length: 04:58
Gianluca Tramontana takes us to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and shows us around a favela ghost town in the shadow of the Maracana soccer stadium.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 08:05
One of the oldest and certainly the largest guest worker program in United States history was that of the Braceros. Nearly 5 million Mexican labore...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 03:48
In Colombia, drug-trafficking paramilitary groups terrorized the country for many years. The violence displaced more than 3.5 million people. Then...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
You know about illegal immigrants who swim across the Rio Grande to get into Texas. But down on Mexico's southern border with Guatemala it’s the R...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 04:21
- Purchases: 1
Story: Every day, hundreds of Central American migrants ride on top of Mexican freight trains bound for the US border. Kids and teenagers often att...
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 12:34
Mexicans remember what it was like to go through a devastating earthquake. One hit Mexico City 25-years ago. So rescue workers from Mexico have r...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 1
Mexico is slowly getting back to normal after the swine flu pandemic shut down schools, shops and businesses. The people worst hit by the closures...
- Added: May 08, 2009
- Length: 06:05
As drug violence in Mexico ratchets up, President Obama says hes going to increase border patrols in the southern US. This is only one of many mea...
- Added: Mar 26, 2009
- Length: 05:26
- Purchases: 3
This past week, several hostages were released by FARC – the rebel group in Colombia. The left wing group has been fighting government forces for ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2009
- Length: 05:34
It’s often been said “one man’s garbage is another man’s gold.” It’s a bit of an overstatement but it’s basically true in Mexico. At the garbage ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
Automakers recently held their annual auto show in Detroit showing off the latest innovations in automobile technology and design. Hybrid and all ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2009
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 2
Bolivian President Evo Morales says he’s committed to fighting cocaine production and trafficking in his country. Three years ago he instituted a ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2009
- Length: 07:49
- Purchases: 2
Bolivia's controversial "Coca Yes, Cocaine No" program" is designed to fight illegal cocaine production and trafficking, while allowing the cultiva...
- Added: Jan 13, 2009
- Length: 05:36
A Migration story: From San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca to Portland, Oregon
- Added: Dec 01, 2008
- Length: 06:57
Human rights groups in Argentina report that the trials to convict former members of the military dictatorship for human rights abuses have been pu...
- Added: Feb 24, 2007
- Length: 03:06
This is an audio postcard that paints the picture of the Funeral Procession at the "School of the Assasins" where tens of thousands recite the name...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Nov 29, 2006
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Mexicans living abroad may earn right to vote in their country's national elections
- Added: Jul 11, 2005
- Length: 02:28
"And I walked" combines voices of border crossers, U.S. Border Patrol, and the haunting words of author Charles Bowden to highlight the plight of t...
Bought by PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, Western Folklife Center Media, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2004
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 7
