Category Archives: South America

June 13th, 2025: Undocumented & LGBTQ- Peru

In the latest installment of the Undocumented & LGBTQ series, the LMC spends the hour with Malú Machuca Rose to discuss the unique challenges of Peru’s LGBTQ community and how the country’s civil war from generations ago still hinder the struggle for equal rights.

Malú Machuca Rose is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University.

May 2nd, 2025: Daniel Noboa vs Afro-Ecuadorians

Military executions. Police snipers. Environmental racism. On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Claudia O’Brien Moscoso and Arturo Ramirez, a professor of public policy at the Catholic University of Santiago, Guayaquil in Ecuador, on the challenges faced by Afro-Ecuadorians under the authoritarian presidency of Daniel Noboa.