As Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso faces a possible second impeachment amid a series of corruption scandals, the LMC spends the hour with Guillaume Long, the former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs and current senior analyst for the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to break down the scandals plaguing the Lasso administration.
Category Archives: South America
March 17th, 2023: Colombia, Venezuela, and the ELN
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Juan Rojas, an intelligence fellow at Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, to discuss the complicated triangle between, Colombia, Venezuela, and the ELN in the quest for peace.
February 3rd, 2023: Peru’s Political Crisis
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Peruvian activist and economist Ruperto Moreno to disuss the latest in Peru’s political crisis, public mobilization in both Peru and Washington, and the roots of the countries economic structure that lead to the ouster of Pedro Castillo.