On this episode, Tomas Summers-Sandoval talks about the little known history of Latinos in the Vietnam War and how the number of Latinos in that war was a lot larger than people realize. He also talks about the forgotten legacy of the Chicano Moratorium of 1970, one of the largest minority-led, anti-war movements during this period. Summers-Sandoval is an associate professor of History &Chicanx/Latinx studies @ Pomona College.
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May 11th, 2018: Panama Canal’s Forgotten Victims
The Panama Canal was built for the benefit of US imperialism, under the dark cloud of Jim-Crow racism, with little regard to worker’s rights, and almost no recourse for disability rights. This is the dark story of the forgotten victims of the Panama Canal. the LMC speaks with Caroline Lieffers, a PhD candidate in the History of Science & Medicine at Yale University.
May 4th, 2018: Nicaragua Protests
Following a violent crackdown on protests against austerity measures that led to dozens of deaths, the LMC speaks with Felix Maradiaga about the latest in Nicaragua and what happens next. Maradiaga is the exec director of the Instituto de Estudios Estrageticos y Policias Publicas de Nicaragua (IEEPP).
