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.