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.
Caught between a war at home and targeted by ICE in the US, Ecuadorian migrants are facing a perpetual cycle of violence with little relief. So the LMC speaks with Andrea Sempértegui, an Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, on how both the US and Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa have created an inescapable state of interconnected wars.
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