Following shocking allegations implicating former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in a plot to assassinate current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the LMC spends the hour with Olavo Passos de Souza, a doctoral student in history at Stanford University in California, about what these allegations mean to the fragile state of democracy in Brazil.
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November 1st, 2024: Latin American Solidarity with Palestine
On this episode, the LMC speaks with George Ygarza about Latin America’s solidarity with Palestinian self-determination and it both challenges recent events in Gaza and calls into question the justification of Zionism.
George Ygarza is a translator, popular educator, and postdoctoral researcher at Binghamton University in New York. He is also a member of the Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
July 26th, 2024: Women’s Futbol in El Salvador
While El Salvador’s men’s national soccer team continue to produce poor results on the field and make poor decisions off it, the women’s program has quietly become the best team in the country. So the LMC speaks with Nelson Rauda, the editor for El Faro, about the continued growth challenges, and development of women’s futbol in El Salvador.