As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues, the LMC speaks with Leonardo Flores from CodePink on the Biden administration’s talks with Venezuela to renormalize relations as a means to ease the current oil crisis as well as the history of US hegemony over Venezuela’s oil industry.
Category Archives: South America
February 11th, 2022: Elza Soares, Presente!!!
On a special music episode of the LMC, host Oscar Fernandez spends the hour with freelance writer and ethnomusicologist Felipe Maia to pay homage to Afro-Brazilian samba legend Elza Soares and how she overcame poverty, domestic abuse, sexism, and institutional racism in Brazil’s music industry.
February 4th, 2022: Paraguay’s Dark Colonies
As a racist, anti-vaxxer movement from Europe look to create a new settlement in Paraguay, the LMC speaks with freelance writer William Costa about how this recent development adds another dark chapter to a Paraguayan migrant settlement history rooted in racism & Nazism.
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