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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September 23rd, 2022: Hurricane Fiona
Following the recent devastation of Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico on top of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria, the LMC spends the hour with Dr Monica Feliu-Mojer to discuss the challenges of both global warming and colonialism. Monica Feliu-Mojer is a Puerto Rican scientist and science communicator as well as the director of communications & science outreach for Ciencia Puerto Rico.
August 19th, 2022: Colombia’s Operation Artemis
On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with freelance journalist Christina Noriega to discuss Colombia’s Operation Artemis and how it has used the expansion of national parks to further criminalize sustenance, landless farmers.