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.
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March 17th, 2023: Colombia, Venezuela, and the ELN
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Juan Rojas, an intelligence fellow at Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, to discuss the complicated triangle between, Colombia, Venezuela, and the ELN in the quest for peace.
August 19th, 2022: Colombia’s Operation Artemis
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with freelance journalist Christina Noriega to discuss Colombia’s Operation Artemis and how it has used the expansion of national parks to further criminalize sustenance, landless farmers.
