On this episode of the LMC, Yesenia Portillo, the program director for CISPES, speaks about the horrors, human rights abuses, and disappearances of innocent people at the CECOT prison in El Salvador and how Nayib Bukele is using his gulag to both maintain his power and work at the service of the Trump administration.
CISPES is the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.
Often talked about but never heard from in corporate media, the Salvadoran community in Washington DC has been often overlooked in the DMV narrative. So the LMC speaks with Ana Patricia Rodriguez to discuss how the Salvadoran diaspora helped build Washington as we know it today and the sacrifices immigrants make for their children’s futures.
Ana Patricia Rodríguez is an Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures @ the University of Maryland in College Park. She is also the author of “Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area.”
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.
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