As the 2026 World Cup is under way, Celso Thomas Castilho, an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, spends the hour with the LMC to discuss the forgotten history Latino activism during the 1994 World Cup and the independent Latino newspapers that documented it all.
Category Archives: South America
May 29th, 2026: Under The Shadow Season 2
On this episode, the LMC welcomes back Michael Fox, the host of the Under The Shadow podcast, to discuss season two of the show and how the US invasion of Venezuela earlier this year marked the beginning of the Donroe Doctrine in Latin America.
May 22nd, 2026: HondurasGate
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.