Search results for

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports Mexico's new president has won his first big battle, winning approval of his budget for 2001 from a divided congress. Dealing with the Mexican congress was expected to be one of the biggest challenges for Vicente Fox. Although analysts call the budget approval a political victory, it was not without cost. Fox was forced to give up spending money on big infrastructure projects, which he believes is the most effective way to lift people out of poverty. Instead, the money went to housing and social programs that more immediately help the poor. Fox's overall economic plan is in some jeopardy because oil prices have dropped below the lower limit his budget had anticipated. Oil revenues account for about a third of Mexico's budget.

The University of Vermont Health Network-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh has returned to mandatory masking.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on Mexican president-elect Vicente Fox's plans for restructuring key government ministers in an effort to fight endemic corruption. Fox is stripping the all-powerful Interior Ministry of much of its duties, and creating a new ministry in charge of federal police and intelligence services. He's also taking some powers away from the attorney general's office.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that a traditional form of Cuban music and dance that is rarely heard on the island is thriving in one part of Mexico. In the streets of the port city of Veracruz, you can often find live danzon concerts, and dozens of couples dancing to the melody. Even young people have fallen in love with the danzon. A local danzon troupe has toured the US, Canada and Europe.

The people of the Mexican state of Chiapas will vote for their new governor today. The election is a closely-watched affair in Mexico, especially for members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, also known as the PRI. After holding the office of the President for 71 years, the PRI lost that seat last month, and now they find themselves desperately in need of a win in Chiapas. N-P-R's Gerry Hadden reports.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the opening of the basement of Ernest Hemingway's ranch outside of Havana, Cuba, where researchers are for the first time able to pore over thousands of the author's letters, photographs and drafts. The artifacts have been left undisturbed in the basement since Hemingway left Cuba in 1960.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Santiago that a Chilean court has blocked an indictment of former dictator Agosto Pinochet on murder and kidnapping charges. Attorney's pressing the case against the 85-year-old general are appealing the decision to the Supreme Court which will hear the case in the coming weeks.

In Mexico's southern Chiapas mountains, men, women and children work in primitive conditions to mine amber from the rock. Working by candlelight deep in the mountainsides with none of the security features found in modern mines, these Mexicans pry the honey-colored fossil from the hill. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Simojovel , Mexico.

(Airs 09/29/22) WAMC's Alan Chartock in an encore In Conversation with the late Hedi McKinley, Holocaust survivor, Social Worker and long-time WAMC volunteer. Hedi died on September 20, 2022 at the age of 102.

(03/17/22 @ 1 p.m.) An encore interview - WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with James Reston Jr., Author of The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and The Real Target in Dallas.