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.
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.
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.
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.