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.
Category Archives: South America
July 12th, 2024: Failed Coup in Bolivia
Amid a failed coup attempt in Bolivia, a split within the leftist MAS party, and allegations of a “self-coup”, the LMC spends the hour with Gabriel Hetland to break down a series of events in Bolivia that raises more questions than answers for the struggling presidency of Luis Arce.
Gabriel Hetland is an associate professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx studies at SUNY Albany in New York.
June 21st, 2024: Colombia vs Chiquita
Following a U.S. court ruling holding Chiquita Brands, formerly the United Fruit Company, liable for killings between 1997 and 2004 by a Colombian right-wing paramilitary group that the company gave millions of dollars; the LMC speaks with freelance writer Joshua Collins about the company’s history of bananas and blood.
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