Amid a series of historic anti-government protests in Cuba, the LMC spends the hour with Leonardo Flores on what lessons should we learn and what to look out for in corporate media’s coverage of Cuba. Flores is a Latin American policy expert and campaigner for CodePink.
Category Archives: North America
June 18th, 2021: Undocumented & LGBTQ pt 11, Miami Edition
This latest edition of our Undocumented & LGBTQ series takes us to Miami as we spend the hour with Julio Capo Jr on the rich history of Miami’s LGBTQ community and its influence on the city today. Julio Capo Jr is the author of, “Welcome To Fairyland: Queer Miami
Before 1940.”
April 30th, 2021: The Mount Pleasant Uprising of 1991
Predating the riots in Los Angeles, the Mount Pleasant Uprising in 1991 marked a turning point for Washington DC’s Central American community as well as the beginning of the gentrification movement that has transformed the city. So the LMC spends the hour with DC activist and poet Quique Aviles to reminisce on this period in DC history and what has happened to the community since.