Following the amazing performance by Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show, the LMC speaks with Puerto Rican writer Alberto Medina to break down the independence movement’s greatest ever spotlight.
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February 13th, 2026: American Death Squad
Civilians being murdered. Racial profiling. Militarized forces in educational institutions. Political rivals attacked. Indigenous lands being shaken down.
The parallels between ICE and border patrol with the US-supported Central American death squads of the 80s are striking. So the LMC spends the hour with Jorge Cuellar, an assistant professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College of Hanover in New Hampshire, to further examine these parallels following recent events in Minnesota.
February 6th, 2026: ICE & the Tonton Macoute
Francois Pierre-Louis, Professor of Political Science at Queens College City University of New York, joins the LMC for an intense conversation on the parallels between ICE and the dark legacy of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti.