Hector Silva Avalos, a Salvadoran journalist & fellow at American University in Washington DC, discusses with us about the fact vs fiction of the notorious MS-13 gang. He discusses about the myths and misconceptions about the gang by the current Trump administration.
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April 7th 2017: El Salvador Mining Ban
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/
Nov 11th 2016: Gentrifying Latino Food Culture
On this episode, we speak with Daniel Alvarenga, the creator of Salvadoran blog site www.salvacultura.com/ on how gentrification can even affect the food we eat & how it can be co-opted to the rest of mainstream American food culture. Buen provecho!
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