As the US continues to impose austerity measures on Puerto Rico through a fiscal control board, the LMC speaks with independent journalist Diana Ramos Gutierrez on how Puerto Ricans have responded at the grassroots level in the face of austerity.
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January 29th, 2021: Goya
What does Goya’s continued support of Trump tell us about white privilege & corporate greed? The LMC finds out by spending the hour with Will Guzman on the dark side of Goya and the Unanue family. Will Guzman is a professor of History @ Praire View A&M in Texas.
July 19th, 2019: Privatizing Puerto Rico’s Schools
Amid the political crisis rocking the administration of Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello, the LMC speaks with Fernando Tormos about long-time efforts by various administrations to privatize the PR school system. With all the offensive leaked messages and indictments of government officials for money laundering, at the heart of the scandal is the privatization of Puerto Rican public resources for private profit. Fernando Tormos is a post-doctoral fellow for the Scholars Strategy Network @ the University of Missouri in St Louis.
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