o begin Pride Month, the LMC speaks with Nicola Chavez and Roberto Zapata from the LGBTQ rights group Amate de El Salvador to discuss the challenges faced by the community under the authoritarian government of president Nayib Bukele during the continued state of exception.
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November 24th, 2023: Bukele’s Beauty Pageant
Following the 2023 Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador, the LMC speaks with professors Ana P Rodriguez and Jorge Cuellar on how the pageant was used to whitewash Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s authoritarianism.
Ana P Rodriguez is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures @ the University of Maryland in College Park. Jorge Cuellar is a Assistant Professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
June 23rd, 2023: El Salvador’s Match Fixing Scandal
Ten years after a match fixing scandal rocked El Salvador’s national soccer team, the LMC speaks with El Faro reporter Nelson Rauda on how institutional corruption went beyond the individual players and into the highest levels of El Salvador’s futbol structure.
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