Amid a firestorm of controversy over illegal deportations to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, the LMC spends the hour with Jorge Cuellar, assistant professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, to discuss Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s illegal deportation agreement with the Trump administration.
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March 14th, 2025: The Life & Legacy of Schafik Handal
Salvadoran. Palestinian. Revolutionary. On this episode, the LMC speaks with Amy Fallas, a Salvadoran-Costa Rican writer, editor, and historian, on the political legacy of Schafik Handal and his amazing role in creating solidarity with resistance movements between El Salvador and the Middle East during the 1980s.
Amy Fallas is also an assistant editor at the Arab Studies Journal and a PhD candidate in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
February 28th, 2025: Marco Rubio as Secretary of State
Freelance reporter Arturo Dominguez returns to discuss how Marco Rubio as Secretary of State serves as Trump’s white nationalist agenda in Latin America.