On this episode, the LMC welcomes Yesenia Portillo, the program director for CISPES, to discuss the latest actions by Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele under the state of exception as it ramps up its criminalization of union and environmental activists.
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March 31st, 2023: Jimmy Carter & Oscar Romero
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Hilary Goodfriend, a University of California-Riverside postdoctoral fellow at the Latino & Latin American Studies Research Center, to discuss the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and the time US President Jimmy Carter ignored his calls to stop military to the Salvadoran junta in 1980.
December 16th, 2022: El Salvador’s State of Exception
As the state of exception continues in El Salvador under the Nayib Bukele administration, the LMC speaks with Yesenia Portillo, the program director for CISPES, on the consequences of El Salvador’s backsliding democracy.
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