Ten years after a match fixing scandal rocked El Salvador’s national soccer team, the LMC speaks with El Faro reporter Nelson Rauda on how institutional corruption went beyond the individual players and into the highest levels of El Salvador’s futbol structure.
Category Archives: Central America
June 9th, 2023: El Salvador’s Continued State of Exception
On this episode, the LMC welcomes Yesenia Portillo, the program director for CISPES, to discuss the latest actions by Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele under the state of exception as it ramps up its criminalization of union and environmental activists.
The Black Women Who Made The Panama Canal
Joan Flores-Villalobos, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California, joins the LMC to discuss her new book, “The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal.”
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