A disinformation campaign. Paid-off pardon. Another possible coup plot. Expanded US military presence in Central America. This is the Honduras Gate scandal under the guise of former Honduran coup leader Juan Orlando Hernandez.
On this episode, the LMC speaks with Kurt Hackbarth to discuss the Honduras Gate scandal and what it means to the sovereignty of Mexico under president Claudia Sheinbaum.
Kurt Hackbarth is the co-host of both the Soberania Podcast and Sin Muros on Mexico City’s Canal 11.
Long before Hugo Chavez became the face of Latin American resistance against the US, he led a military coup attempt in 1992 against the corrupt and violent presidency of Carlos Andrés Pérez. So the LMC spends the hour with Maria Paez Victor, a Venezuelan-born sociologist based in Canada, to discuss how this moment in Venezuelan history helped change the course of Venezuela from a compliant servant of US interests into a revolutionary state of resistance.
Caught between a war at home and targeted by ICE in the US, Ecuadorian migrants are facing a perpetual cycle of violence with little relief. So the LMC speaks with Andrea Sempértegui, an Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, on how both the US and Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa have created an inescapable state of interconnected wars.
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