Laura Embree-Lowry, the program director for CISPES, joins us to discuss the historic mining ban in El Salvador. She’ll explain how El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban all metallic mining nationwide and about the activists whom risked their lives to fight for social and environmental justice. Learn more at cispes.org/
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March 24th 2017: Crisis of the Brazilian Left
Sabrina Fernandes returns to speak with the LMC on the internal fragmentation within the Brazilian Leftist movements that set the stage to last year’s coup against president Dilma Rousseff. You can learn more about her analysis at ppesydney.net/crisis-praxis-brazilian-left/
Jan 13th 2017: Bolivia’s Water Wars
Does Bolivia’s current drought crisis and lack of accessible water setting the stage for a repeat of the 2000 Water War? Nasya Razavi tells us the latest on the new struggle for the right to water in Bolivia.
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