Following a racist, xenophobic ad by the US Department of Homeland Security that ran on Mexico’s airwaves last April, freelance writer Kurt Hackbarth breaks down Mexico’s corporate media structure and how this controversy may lead to reforms in the country’s telecommunications laws.
Kurt Hackbarth is also the host of the Sobrania Podcast.
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.
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.
The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.