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.
Today on the show, the LMC speaks with Silvio Rendon, an economist for the Center for Economic and Policy Research. on how US sanctions imposed on various countries end up possibly killing more people than war does.
Freelance writer Arturo Dominguez returns to discuss the catch-22 created by white nationalists in detaining immigrants at US courts in a no-win situation.
The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.
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