As the 2026 World Cup is under way, Celso Thomas Castilho, an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, spends the hour with the LMC to discuss the forgotten history Latino activism during the 1994 World Cup and the independent Latino newspapers that documented it all.
Category Archives: Central America
May 22nd, 2026: HondurasGate
A disinformation campaign. Paid-off pardon. Another possible coup plot. Expanded US military presence in Central America. This is the Honduras Gate scandal under the guise of former Honduran coup leader Juan Orlando Hernandez.
On this episode, the LMC speaks with Kurt Hackbarth to discuss the Honduras Gate scandal and what it means to the sovereignty of Mexico under president Claudia Sheinbaum.
Kurt Hackbarth is the co-host of both the Soberania Podcast and Sin Muros on Mexico City’s Canal 11.
March 27th, 2026: Bukele at the Service of Trump
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.
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