As Salvadorans continue to migrate to find a better life, many pro soccer players of Salvadoran descent have returned to El Salvador to reshape the country’s national team. So the LMC speaks with El Faro reporter Nelson Rauda about how futbol ties the Salvadoran diaspora together when migration often tears them apart.
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September 24th, 2021: Bukele The Dictator
Following Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s social media stunt calling himself a dictator, the LMC spends the hour with Yesenia Portillo on the absurdity of the Bukele administration’s social media actions and the real problems being left out of the picture. Yesenia Portillo is the East Coast Coordinator for Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES).
July 23rd, 2021: Bitcoin In El Salvador
How does Bitcoin work in a country ill-prepared to deal with cryptocurrencies? The LMC tries to find out by speaking with professor Eric Vazquez on the dark side of cryptocurrency as it makes its way into Latin America. Eric Vazquez is an assistant professor in American Studies & Latinx Studies @ the University of Iowa.
