A disinformation campaign. Paid-off pardon. Another possible coup plot. Expanded US military presence in Central America. This is the Honduras Gate scandal under the guise of former Honduran coup leader Juan Orlando Hernandez.
On this episode, the LMC speaks with Kurt Hackbarth to discuss the Honduras Gate scandal and what it means to the sovereignty of Mexico under president Claudia Sheinbaum.
Kurt Hackbarth is the co-host of both the Soberania Podcast and Sin Muros on Mexico City’s Canal 11.
Long before Hugo Chavez became the face of Latin American resistance against the US, he led a military coup attempt in 1992 against the corrupt and violent presidency of Carlos Andrés Pérez. So the LMC spends the hour with Maria Paez Victor, a Venezuelan-born sociologist based in Canada, to discuss how this moment in Venezuelan history helped change the course of Venezuela from a compliant servant of US interests into a revolutionary state of resistance.
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Venezuelan sociologist Maria Paez Victor and freelance writer Joe Emersberger to discuss the role of right-wing Venezuelan corporate media in the 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez and what lessons can be learned as US corporate consolidation of media continues to grow.
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