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.
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October 3rd, 2025: Venezuela’s Corporate Media
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.
July 12th, 2024: Failed Coup in Bolivia
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.
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