Following the passing of former US president Jimmy Carter last December, the LMC speaks with Jorge Cuellar about the dark and complicated legacy of his foreign policy in Central America and why it still remains relevant today.
Jorge Cuellar is an assistant professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
LMC favorite Jorge Cuellar returns to the show to discuss La Matanza in 1932, one of the worse massacres on indigenous people in Latin America, and why it still shapes the socioeconomic inequality in El Salvador
Jorge Cuellar is an Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
As human rights violations continue to mount in El Salvador, U.S. lawmakers are looking to whitewash the abuses of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. So the LMC spends the hour with Alexis Stoumbelis, the Executive Director of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), to break down who is involved and what it means for Salvadoran democracy under the continued state of exception.
The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.