Are there parallels between Puerto Rico’s colonial status and occupied Palestine? The colonizers seem to think so. So the LMC spends the hour with Alberto Medina and James Early to discuss the colonial structure that marginalizes both Puerto Ricans and Palestinians toward solidarity.
Alberto C. Medina is a Puerto Rico–born, US-based writer, editor, and advocate for Puerto Rican independence. He is the president of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora (BUDPR). His Substack is Free Puerto Rico.
James Early is the former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service.
Following the shocking decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to right-wing Venezuelan activist Maria Corina Machado, the LMC speaks with freelance writers Maria Paez Victor and Joe Emersberger to discuss what the Nobel Foundation missed regarding Machado’s dark history of supporting right-wing political violence.
On a special joint project with the Colombia Human Rights Network, the LMC spends the hour with human rights activist Alberto Yepes on the ongoing challenges of both maintaining Colombia’s peace process and how to dismantle the military’s stranglehold on one of the most unequal countries in Latin America.
The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.
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