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July 26th, 2024: Women’s Futbol in El Salvador

While El Salvador’s men’s national soccer team continue to produce poor results on the field and make poor decisions off it, the women’s program has quietly become the best team in the country. So the LMC speaks with Nelson Rauda, the editor for El Faro, about the continued growth challenges, and development of women’s futbol in El Salvador.

July 12th, 2024: Failed Coup in Bolivia

Amid a failed coup attempt in Bolivia, a split within the leftist MAS party, and allegations of a “self-coup”, the LMC spends the hour with Gabriel Hetland to break down a series of events in Bolivia that raises more questions than answers for the struggling presidency of Luis Arce.

Gabriel Hetland is an associate professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx studies at SUNY Albany in New York.

July 5th, 2024: Biden’s Asylum Policy

President Joe Biden’s new executive orders on asylum was met with disapproval from both Democrats and Republicans. So the LMC spends the hour with Ernesto Castaneda, the director for the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies & the Immigration Lab at American University in Washington DC, to break down the political miscalculations of Biden’s migrant policy.