Following the election of Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori, the LMC speaks with professor Javier Puente on how Peru’s democratic process lies on thin ice in the face of further neoliberal austerity measures known as Fujimorismo.
Javier Puente is the Chair and Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino/a Studies @ Smith College in Northampton, MA.
Decades after the inception of Operation Condor throughout South America, the LMC spends the hour with Dr Francesca Lessa on transational repression under the guise of Operation Condor and the continued pursuit for justice years later. Dr Francesca Lessa is the author of, “The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression And Human Rights In South America.”
Following Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s social media stunt calling himself a dictator, the LMC spends the hour with Yesenia Portillo on the absurdity of the Bukele administration’s social media actions and the real problems being left out of the picture. Yesenia Portillo is the East Coast Coordinator for Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES).
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