AI deception. Fake news sites. Bot farming. Attempted murder. This week the LMC speaks with Kurt Hackbarth and Arturo Dominguez to discuss the case of right-wing operative Fernando Cerimedo and his disinformation media network that has negatively influenced numerous countries in Latin America as well as his ties to the US.
Kurt Hackbarth is the co-host of the Soberania Podcast and Sin Muros on Mexico City’s Canal 11. Arturo Dominguez is a freelance writer based in Houston, Texas.
Following a deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro last October that left over 120 dead, the LMC spends the hour with TeleSur English’s Brazil correspondent Brian Mier to discuss the long history of institutional racism and violence by state police.
Following shocking allegations implicating former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in a plot to assassinate current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the LMC spends the hour with Olavo Passos de Souza, a doctoral student in history at Stanford University in California, about what these allegations mean to the fragile state of democracy in Brazil.
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.