Latino USA (Special Interest)

In this week’s show, we begin a series looking at how political ads aim to attract Latino voters. A new era of outreach, or old-fashioned pandering? We examine one ad from the Democrats in Arizona that asked young Latinos to express their political outrage by texting for a chance to win concert tickets. We also speak with Dr. America Bracho, a health hero battling diabetes and obesity in Orange County, California, visit women who stitch their deepest secrets into quilts, and find out how...

This week on Latino USA-- we give you our take on Cinco de Mayo with a story about a Haitian charro who’s winning the hearts of Mexican New Yorkers. And we check in with our friends at Alt.Latino and hear some of the Cinco de Mayo tunes that are on their playlist. We also visit Lahinaluna (LAH.HI.nuh.LOO.nuh) High School, a public boarding school on Maui where students reconnect with their agricultural past.

This week on Latino USA, the Supreme Court hears arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona’s strict immigration law; we hear from people across the country on what they think about the law. And a telenovela with a message about managing diabetes.

This week on Latino USA’s Podcast…Latino athletes targeted by anti-immigrant heckling; a civil rights lawsuit against a New York City program that puts police patrols inside apartment buildings; Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America and, The Flamboyan Tree: A Daughter Remembers.

"One Family's Experience with Alzheimer's" - As part of our special reports on Latinos and health, we spend time with the Obando family in Queens, NY, and get a glimpse of their lives with Alzheimer's.

This week we explore Latina teen suicide, and the complex family dynamics that drive it. We hear from a young teen who has struggled with depression and several suicide attempts, and speak to a researcher and doctor who has spent the last decade working on the issue.

This week – We revisit our series: “RadioNature”byexploring people’s connectionto nature and the outdoors. We begin in the Bronx… an urban borough bordered by the Bronx River. It’s the only freshwater river that runs through New York City. And for the majority of low-income Bronx residents, it’s one of their only connections to nature and a break from urban life. And we go to California to visit Charles Garcia, a third generation “curandero,” a traditional healer in the Latino community who...

Today, a conversation with the acclaimed author, Rudolfo Anaya about the past, present, and future of Chicano literature in the face of book bans and censorship. And we travel to Colorado to meet an immigrant shepherd working, living, and dreaming in the harsh environment of the Rocky Mountains.

Maria Martin shares the story of one of Nicaragua’s most celebrated musicians — singer-songwriter Carlos Meja Godoy. In the sixties and seventies, Carlos, along with his brother, Luis Enrique, composed the soundtrack for Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution. And today,decades later, both are now working to preserve Nicaragua’s unique cultural traditions. Today, Carlos Mejia Godoy shares his thoughts on family and Nicaragua’s past, present and future.

For the next 10 months, politicians pundits and reporters will poll, analyze, court every voter in the country. . The Latino vote will be crucial, but it is also a vote that tends to be elusive when voting as a block. Today, we want to take a step back and look at how the Latino community is changing and evolving, and how that might affect the election come November. And we travel to the land where the rainbow gets it’s colors…Guatemala.

Well 2012 is finally here - And while some people plan their year festivities, others worry of doomsday scenarios and point at the Mayan calendar’s ancient prophecies on the end of the world. We go to Guatemala, the land of the Maya, to see what people are saying about 2012. And a profile of the Norteno supergroup, Los Tigres del Norte.

This week on Latino USA: The “Green”American Dream? During President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, the President promised to create 5 million green jobs to boost the clean energy sector, lower skyrocketing unemployment and end America’s dependence on foreign oil. Has that happened? And, we go to the small town ofCalipatria in Imperial County, CA. It has one of the country’s highest unemployment rates, but the town sits atop a renewable energy resource they hope will boost its economic...

This week on Latino USA:The price of intolerance? Alabama’s harsh new immigration law, known as H-B-56, has both documented and undocumented workers fleeing Alabama for Florida, but can it meet the needs of the new arrivals? And we remember, 18-year-old Joaquin Luna, an undocumented DREAM student.

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November brings back colored sugar, hot candle wax, and a blend of Catholicism and Aztec rituals to mark El Dia de los Muertos - L.A. style. We also visit Charles Garcia, a third generation “curandero,” a traditional healer in the Latino community who founded the California School of Traditional Hispanic Herbalism. And Maria Hinojosa talks to director and co-executive producer Gini Reticker about The War We Are Living, part of PBS’ Women, War and Peace series that captures how Afro-Colombian...