On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Hilary Goodfriend, a University of California-Riverside postdoctoral fellow at the Latino & Latin American Studies Research Center, to discuss the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and the time US President Jimmy Carter ignored his calls to stop military to the Salvadoran junta in 1980.
Category Archives: Central America
2022 LMC Year In Review
On the last show of 2022, Latino Media Collective host Oscar Fernandez and original founder Norberto Martinez look back on the year that was in the LMC universe as we hit on some of the biggest issues covered on the show.
December 16th, 2022: El Salvador’s State of Exception
As the state of exception continues in El Salvador under the Nayib Bukele administration, the LMC speaks with Yesenia Portillo, the program director for CISPES, on the consequences of El Salvador’s backsliding democracy.