On this episode of the LMC, Yesenia Portillo, the program director for CISPES, speaks about the horrors, human rights abuses, and disappearances of innocent people at the CECOT prison in El Salvador and how Nayib Bukele is using his gulag to both maintain his power and work at the service of the Trump administration.
CISPES is the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.
The battle for migrant rights in Minnesota is not over yet. On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Jac Kovarik on how communities in the Twin Cities are protecting migrants from detentions and how the fight against ICE continues long after the media spotlight has faded.
The LMC collaborates with the Colombia Human Rights Committee once again to discuss the plight of Colombian environmental activists with Astrid Torres, the Director of the Somos Defensores Program, and Pilar Castillo, Director of Asociación MINGA.
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.