Military executions. Police snipers. Environmental racism. On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Claudia O’Brien Moscoso and Arturo Ramirez, a professor of public policy at the Catholic University of Santiago, Guayaquil in Ecuador, on the challenges faced by Afro-Ecuadorians under the authoritarian presidency of Daniel Noboa.
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February 7th, 2025: The Guayaquil Four
Last December, four Afro-Latino boys were taken by the Ecuadorian military and were never seen alive again. On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Claudia O’Brien Moscoso about the case of the Guayaquil Four and how it raises the question of institutional racism and political instability in Ecuador.
April 14th, 2023: Ecuador’s Deteriorating Democracy Under Guillermo Lasso
As Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso faces a possible second impeachment amid a series of corruption scandals, the LMC spends the hour with Guillaume Long, the former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs and current senior analyst for the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to break down the scandals plaguing the Lasso administration.
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