Línea Abierta

Línea Abierta is the first — and only — national live talk and call-in program in public broadcasting interconnecting Spanish-speaking audiences and newsmakers throughout the United States and Mexico. Each weekday, Línea Abierta offers an hour of news, analysis, features, interviews, round-tables, special series and listener call-ins on current events, health, jobs, politics, the environment, education, the arts and culture, race relations and immigrant rights, and more. Diverse guests and audience members exchange views and crucial information, as our experienced hosts lead the dialogue. Radio Bilingüe launched Línea Abierta in 1995 to meet the void of intelligent, thoughtful Spanish language and Latino-oriented public affairs programming in public and commercial media — and it is still unmatched today, carried by 75 stations across the nation. Available free to stations via satellite, content deport and radiobilingue.org.

Mexico Edition.

15 February, 2019

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 PROGRAM # 8544 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts the program Voz Pública from Mexico City. The civic journalist brings news...

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Linea Abierta Programming: WEEK OF FEBRUARY 18, 2019

15 February, 2019

LÍNEA ABIERTA, the nation’s only daily Spanish-language talk show in public radio.

Lighting the New Fire.

14 February, 2019

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 PROGRAM # 8543 12:00 PM PT Lighting the New Fire. With a ceremony of the Lighting of the New Fire, P’urhepecha migrants living in...

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Fairness in the Fields. Also, The Call for a Green New Deal.

13 February, 2019

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 PROGRAM # 8542 12:00 PM PT Fairness in the Fields. Democratic US legislators introduced the Fairness for Farm Workers Act to end the exclusion...

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Immigration Edition.

12 February, 2019

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 PROGRAM # 8541 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The lawyer of 25 undocumented former Trump employees charge the president with criminal conspiracy to violate...

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El Salvador: New President. Also, Venezuela in the Crosshairs.

11 February, 2019

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 PROGRAM # 8540 12:00 PM PT El Salvador: New President. Former San Salvador mayor Nayib Bukele was elected president in El Salvador with promises...

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Mexico Edition.

8 February, 2019

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 PROGRAM # 8539 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. While in October 2018 the government of Guerrero eliminated the state law that recognized community police...

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Self-Driving Cars: Caution. Also, Basic Income for All.

7 February, 2019

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 PROGRAM # 8538 12:00 PM PT Self-Driving Cars: Caution. The arrival of self-driving robot cars and trucks is being praised as a tremendous technological...

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State of the Union. Also, Texas Voters Purge.

6 February, 2019

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 PROGRAM # 8537 12:00 PM PT State of the Union. After being delayed for one week over the shutdown fiasco, President Trump delivers his...

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Immigration Edition.

5 February, 2019

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 PROGRAM # 8536 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. On the day of the State of the Union speech, this program airs a report on...

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Meet the Hosts

Chelis Lopez and Samuel Orozco

Línea Abierta originates from the Radio Bilingüe studios in Oakland and Fresno, California with hosts Chelis Lopez and Samuel Orozco. Each Friday a Mexico edition airs hosted by journalist Martha Elena Ramirez.