Long before migrants make it to the US/Mexico border, many migrants make the treacherous journey through the Darien Gap. So the LMC spends the hour with freelance writers Joshua Collins and Timothy O’Farrell on the physical and psychological challenges migrants face when crossing the unpaved jungles between Panama and Colombia.
Category Archives: Beyond Latinx
March 14th, 2025: The Life & Legacy of Schafik Handal
Salvadoran. Palestinian. Revolutionary. On this episode, the LMC speaks with Amy Fallas, a Salvadoran-Costa Rican writer, editor, and historian, on the political legacy of Schafik Handal and his amazing role in creating solidarity with resistance movements between El Salvador and the Middle East during the 1980s.
Amy Fallas is also an assistant editor at the Arab Studies Journal and a PhD candidate in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
February 28th, 2025: Marco Rubio as Secretary of State
Freelance reporter Arturo Dominguez returns to discuss how Marco Rubio as Secretary of State serves as Trump’s white nationalist agenda in Latin America.
