President Joe Biden’s new executive orders on asylum was met with disapproval from both Democrats and Republicans. So the LMC spends the hour with Ernesto Castaneda, the director for the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies & the Immigration Lab at American University in Washington DC, to break down the political miscalculations of Biden’s migrant policy.
June 28th, 2024: Ted Cruz Docs Leaked
Legalized bribery. Illegal donor meetings. Leaked documents. Institutional corruption. For this episode, the LMC speaks w/ freelance reporters Pablo Manriquez and Arturo Dominguez to discuss the importance and illegality of Ted Cruz’s leaked documents found at the US Capitol.
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.