Following the shocking decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to right-wing Venezuelan activist Maria Corina Machado, the LMC speaks with freelance writers Maria Paez Victor and Joe Emersberger to discuss what the Nobel Foundation missed regarding Machado’s dark history of supporting right-wing political violence.
Category Archives: South America
October 12th, 2025: Assessing Colombian Human Rights
On a special joint project with the Colombia Human Rights Network, the LMC spends the hour with human rights activist Alberto Yepes on the ongoing challenges of both maintaining Colombia’s peace process and how to dismantle the military’s stranglehold on one of the most unequal countries in Latin America.
October 3rd, 2025: Venezuela’s Corporate Media
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Venezuelan sociologist Maria Paez Victor and freelance writer Joe Emersberger to discuss the role of right-wing Venezuelan corporate media in the 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez and what lessons can be learned as US corporate consolidation of media continues to grow.
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