Fifty years after a self coup in Uruguay plunged the country into a dirty war, the LMC speaks with Debbie Sharnak about the continued legal battle for justice for the victims of Uruguay’s dictatorship and the importance of collective member at the grassroots level.
Debbie Sharnak is an Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Rowan University in New Jersey.
As Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso faces a possible second impeachment amid a series of corruption scandals, the LMC spends the hour with Guillaume Long, the former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs and current senior analyst for the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to break down the scandals plaguing the Lasso administration.
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Juan Rojas, an intelligence fellow at Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, to discuss the complicated triangle between, Colombia, Venezuela, and the ELN in the quest for peace.
The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.