On this episode, the LMC speaks with Katie Coldiron, a digital archivist and doctoral student at Florida International University, on the longstanding, but often unspoken unease between academics and Florida’s Cuban exile community.
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March 25th, 2022: Cuban American Disinformation
How do we tackle the difficult issue of extremism and disinformation within the Cuban-American community in Florida without sounding prejudicial in the process? The LMC spend the hour tackling this issue by speaking with freelance writer Arturo Dominguez on his extensive research into disinformation within the Latino community while also dispelling the stigma that plagues Cuban-Americans as extremist.
July 16th, 2021: Protests In Cuba
Amid a series of historic anti-government protests in Cuba, the LMC spends the hour with Leonardo Flores on what lessons should we learn and what to look out for in corporate media’s coverage of Cuba. Flores is a Latin American policy expert and campaigner for CodePink.