Amid ongoing protests and outrage over numerous ICE raids in Los Angeles and throughout the country, the LMC spends the hour with freelance journalist Victoria Valenzuela on US law enforcement’s long connections with Israeli police training and how the youth of L.A. are fighting back.
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April 25th, 2025: The Future of History
James Early, the former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, joins the LMC to discuss the Trump administration’s attempts to rewrite history by taking over the Smithsonian Institute, the Kennedy Center, and the defunding of public libraries.
April 11th, 2025: Bukele’s Prison Industrial Complex
Amid a firestorm of controversy over illegal deportations to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, the LMC spends the hour with Jorge Cuellar, assistant professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, to discuss Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s illegal deportation agreement with the Trump administration.