The LMC collaborates with the Colombia Human Rights Committee once again to discuss the plight of Colombian environmental activists with Astrid Torres, the Director of the Somos Defensores Program, and Pilar Castillo, Director of Asociación MINGA.
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October 12th, 2025: Assessing Colombian Human Rights
On a special joint project with the Colombia Human Rights Network, the LMC spends the hour with human rights activist Alberto Yepes on the ongoing challenges of both maintaining Colombia’s peace process and how to dismantle the military’s stranglehold on one of the most unequal countries in Latin America.
August 8th, 2025: Colombia vs Israeli impunity
As pressure mounts throughout the world to boycott and block resources going to Israel because of the genocide in Gaza, the LMC spends the hour with writers Abigail Kret and Gabe Levine-Drizin on Colombia is leading the way for the South Global by both Colombian president Gustavo Petro and the grassroots organizations that keep his administration in check.
Abigail Kret is an artist and writer living in Colombia whose work focuses on the history of left-wing movements in the late 20th century.
Gabe Levine-Drizin is NACLA’s Web Editor and a PhD student in History at New York University focusing on Colombian agrarian reform and land occupations in the 1960s and 70s.
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