AI deception. Fake news sites. Bot farming. Attempted murder. This week the LMC speaks with Kurt Hackbarth and Arturo Dominguez to discuss the case of right-wing operative Fernando Cerimedo and his disinformation media network that has negatively influenced numerous countries in Latin America as well as his ties to the US.
Kurt Hackbarth is the co-host of the Soberania Podcast and Sin Muros on Mexico City’s Canal 11. Arturo Dominguez is a freelance writer based in Houston, Texas.
Caught between a war at home and targeted by ICE in the US, Ecuadorian migrants are facing a perpetual cycle of violence with little relief. So the LMC speaks with Andrea Sempértegui, an Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, on how both the US and Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa have created an inescapable state of interconnected wars.
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.
