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LATINO USA:  THE RADIO JOURNAL OF NEWS AND CULTURE

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RUNDOWN FOR LATINO USA #300 FEEDING JANUARY 8, 
1999.

SEGMENT #1:  " PRESIDENT CLINTON IMPEACHMENT 2-WAY 
WITH ARTURO VARGAS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF NALEO" (3:44)
Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa speaks with Arturo Vargas, 
Executive Director of NALEO, the National Association of Latino 
Elected and Appointed Officials.


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SEGMENT #2:  "URBAN HUICHOLES" (7:24)
Latino USA's Franc Contreras reports on how the Huichol 
Indians in Mexico are migrating to the cities and how this 
move is threatening their traditional culture. 


SEGMENT #3:  "GUATEMALA 2 YEARS AFTER PEACE ACCORDS" 
(4:50)
Latino USA's Maria Martin reports on the signing of Guatemala's  
peace accords and the second anniversary of the end of their 
civil war.

SEGMENT #4: "LATINO LEADERS' HOPES FOR 1999" (3:03)
Latino USA hears from various Latino leaders across their country 
about their hopes for the new year. (vox)

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SEGMENT #1 
Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa speaks with Arturo Vargas, 
Executive Director of NALEO, the National Association of Latino 
Elected and Appointed Officials, about the Latino perspective 
now that the impeachment trial of president Bill Clinton is in 
the hands of the U.S. Senate. (SELF-CONTAINED 3:44)


SEGMENT #2
Recently an American Journalist, Phillip True of the San Antonio 
Express-News, was killed in the remote Sierra Madre mountains 
of western Mexico.  True was researching one of Mexico's most 
independent indigenous groups: The Huichol Indians. Two 
Huichol Indians have since been charged with the murder. The 
incident has focused attention on this group, part of Mexico's 
vast and mostly impoverished indigenous population. In recent 
years many Huicholes have been moving into urban areas like 
Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city. But as Latino USA's 
Franc Contreras reports the move to the city has been difficult 
and threatens the traditional culture of these Native-Americans. 
(7:24)

SEGMENT #3
Two years ago, in Guatemala, peace accords were signed ending 
one of Central America's longest-lasting civil wars.  After years 
of negotiations between the government and a number of 
guerrilla organizations, the "Treaty for a Firm and Lasting Peace" 
was signed at a public ceremony attended by dozens of world 
leaders.  Elaborate fireworks and a Mayan religious ceremony 
marked the occasion.  Thousands of Guatemalans expressed hope 
that three and a half decades of violence which left over two 
hundred thousand Guatemalans dead or "disappeared" and 
displaced hundreds of thousands more, would finally come to 
an end.  Latino USA's Maria Martin covered the signing of the 
peace accords in December of 1996, and she has this update. 
(4:50)

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