Freelance writer Arturo Dominguez returns to the LMC to discuss the how tattoos are being used by the Trump administration to racially profile and deport innocent people with no criminal record.
Category Archives: North America
April 11th, 2025: Bukele’s Prison Industrial Complex
Amid a firestorm of controversy over illegal deportations to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, the LMC spends the hour with Jorge Cuellar, assistant professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, to discuss Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s illegal deportation agreement with the Trump administration.
March 7th, 2025: Mexican repatriation in the 1930s in Indiana
On this episode, the LMC welcomes freelance writer Nyki Duda and Emiliano Aguilar, a political and labor historian, to discuss Mexican repatriation in the 1930s in Indiana and how recent events mirror this dark chapter in American history almost a century later.
Emiliano Aguilar is also an assistant professor in the history department at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.