Civilians being murdered. Racial profiling. Militarized forces in educational institutions. Political rivals attacked. Indigenous lands being shaken down.
The parallels between ICE and border patrol with the US-supported Central American death squads of the 80s are striking. So the LMC spends the hour with Jorge Cuellar, an assistant professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College of Hanover in New Hampshire, to further examine these parallels following recent events in Minnesota.
Following the shocking decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to right-wing Venezuelan activist Maria Corina Machado, the LMC speaks with freelance writers Maria Paez Victor and Joe Emersberger to discuss what the Nobel Foundation missed regarding Machado’s dark history of supporting right-wing political violence.
Freelance journalist Arturo Dominguez returns to the LMC to discuss the return of Donald Trump to Twitter, his disastrous interview with Elon Musk, and how both are uniting right-wing hate groups on Twitter following Musk’s takeover of the social media platform.
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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