On a special episode of the LMC, Magdalena Albizu & Eddie Bailey, the producers of the documentary Negrita, discuss how their new film explores the challenges of cultural prejudice and presumptions surrounding the lives of Afro-Latinas in the US.
July 26th, 2024: Women’s Futbol in El Salvador
While El Salvador’s men’s national soccer team continue to produce poor results on the field and make poor decisions off it, the women’s program has quietly become the best team in the country. So the LMC speaks with Nelson Rauda, the editor for El Faro, about the continued growth challenges, and development of women’s futbol in El Salvador.
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.