THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 PROGRAM # 8718 12:00 PM PT “Patrias.” Award-winning journalist Alfredo Corchado is releasing a new book in Spanish where he tells the story of the ways Mexicans who immigrate to the US have been changing themselves when moving North and in the process transforming their adoptive homeland. Part memoir, the book “Patrias/Homelands” […]

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 PROGRAM # 8708 12:00 PM PT “Caravana al Norte.” Award-winning Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta, author of many acclaimed bilingual books for children, is now releasing “Caravana al Norte,” the fictionalized story of a Salvadoran boy whose family joins a migrant caravan to the US, finding kindness during their journey north, but also […]

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 PROGRAM # 8706 12:00 PM PT “Los Camperos: De Ayer para Siempre.” Legendary mariachi ensemble and cultural institution Los Camperos is releasing a new album, the first under the leadership of Jesús “Chuy” Guzmán, after the passing of iconic leader Natividad “Nati” Cano. The album’s repertoire includes canción ranchera, son jarocho, boleros, […]

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 PROGRAM # 8695 12:00 PM PT “Viva Chico Toledo!” Renowned Mexican artist Francisco Toledo, a champion of indigenous traditions, a human rights activist and a national cultural treasure, died in recent days in his native Oaxaca. This program features archival interviews with the maestro and his daughter, the poet Natalia Toledo. Francisco […]

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 PROGRAM # 8682 12:00 PM PT “Los Camperos: De Ayer para Siempre.” Legendary mariachi ensemble and cultural institution Los Camperos is releasing a new album, the first under the leadership of Jesús “Chuy” Guzmán, after the passing of iconic leader Natividad “Nati” Cano. The album’s repertoire includes canción ranchera, son jarocho, boleros, […]

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 PROGRAM # 8677 12:00 PM PT “Straight Out of Barrio Hollywood.” Frank Cruz, a professor turned journalist and then media executive, shares his memoirs as a pioneering Chicano reporter and then the founder of Spanish-language television network Telemundo. In his book, “Straight out of Barrio Hollywood,” Cruz writes about how the challenges […]

THURSDAY, JULY 11 PROGRAM # 8648 12:00 PM PT Mariachi Cultural Heritage. A renowned historian, musicologist, and long-time researcher of Mexico’s mariachi, discusses the evolution of the mariachi tradition, and examines the origins of the emblematic “Son de la Negra.” He comments on the state of mariachis in the cradle of this music: Western Mexico, […]