Last December, four Afro-Latino boys were taken by the Ecuadorian military and were never seen alive again. On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Claudia O’Brien Moscoso about the case of the Guayaquil Four and how it raises the question of institutional racism and political instability in Ecuador.
Category Archives: South America
December 20th, 2024: A Murder Plot in Brazil
Following shocking allegations implicating former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in a plot to assassinate current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the LMC spends the hour with Olavo Passos de Souza, a doctoral student in history at Stanford University in California, about what these allegations mean to the fragile state of democracy in Brazil.
August 9th, 2024: Venezuela Elections Breakdown
Leonardo Flores, a Venezuelan political analyst, activist and founding member of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, returns to the LMC to breakdown the fact vs fiction of Venezuela presidential elections and what corporate media got wrong along the way.