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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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.
July 29th, 2022: The Condor Trials
Decades after the inception of Operation Condor throughout South America, the LMC spends the hour with Dr Francesca Lessa on transational repression under the guise of Operation Condor and the continued pursuit for justice years later. Dr Francesca Lessa is the author of, “The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression And Human Rights In South America.”