We start the new year by focusing on the struggle for environmental and indigenous rights in Ecuador. Freelance journalist Bryan Miranda speaks with us about the struggle for environmental justice by the indigenous Shuar community of Ecuador as they fight to prevent the development of a mining project on ancestral lands. We’ll also talk about a few similarities this case has with the Standing Rock struggle as well.
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Dec 23rd 2016: Colombia after the NO vote
Laura Carlsen, the exec director of the Americas Program for the Center for International Policy gives us her analysis of Colombia following its stunning NO vote against ending the almost six-generations long civil war. Who lost? How did it happen? Who stands to benefit from more war?
Sept 30th 2016: US Human Experimentation in Guatemala.
On this episode, we speak with Lydia Crafts about US history of human experimentation’s in Guatemala in the 40’s. She discusses how US doctors infected people with STI’s, the manipulation of patient consent, and how this history still affects Guatemala’s health care system today. You can find her article on nacla.org/
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