As the 2026 World Cup is under way, Celso Thomas Castilho, an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, spends the hour with the LMC to discuss the forgotten history Latino activism during the 1994 World Cup and the independent Latino newspapers that documented it all.
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March 27th, 2026: Bukele at the Service of Trump
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.
March 13th, 2026: Dispatch from Minnesota
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.
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