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EPISODE: Ecuador's Presidential Election heads to a Second Round in OctoberGUEST: Pilar TroyaPilar is an Ecuadorian feminist anthropologist. Her main areas of interest are social public policies, especially concerning gender equality and the feminist movement. She has served as an advisor to the Ministry of National Planning and as an advisor and Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Ecuador. She is a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.BACKGROUND:Luisa González, of the Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana party, on Sunday took a lead in the first round of Ecuador's presidential and legislative elections, which have been marred by political assassinations as the Andean nation struggles with a wave of violence that has brought homicide rates, under the Lasso administration, to record levels.Gonzalez is set to face the surprise second-place finisher Daniel Noboa in a run-off election in October, according to the National Electoral Council of Ecuador (CNE), as neither candidate won more than 50% of the ballot.González has promised to enhance public spending and social programs and wants to address the security crisis by fixing the root causes of violence, such as poverty and inequality. A former tourism and labor minister in Correa's government, González has also called for the judiciary to be reinforced to help with prosecutions, analysts say.Daniel Noboa is the son of banana businessman Álvaro Noboa – who himself has run for the presidency at least five times. The 35-year-old was a lawmaker before outgoing President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the legislature and called for early elections.FOLLOW OUR GUEST: TwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Ecuador's President Dissolves National Assembly Triggering Early ElectionsEcuador: The Lasso Government Post-National StrikeEcuador Erupts Against NeoliberalismTriContinental: Institute for Social ResearchOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with: Alliance for Global Justice, Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action, Task Force on the Americas, and Venezuelanalysis
EPISODE:Nicaragua, A History of US Intervention & ResistanceGUEST: Author, Activist and Labor Attorney, Daniel KovalikBACKGROUND: The latest book by labor and human rights attorney, Daniel Kovalik, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance (2023, Clarity Press, 292 pages), is a worthy addition to the author's collection of works on countries targeted by U.S. imperialism, such as Venezuela, Russia, and Iran. While giving readers a thoughtful and much fuller picture than one can glean from the corporate media, this volume tells an engaging tale based on personal experience and extensive research.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:FacebookTwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Nicaragua: A History of U.S. Intervention & ResistanceBook Review: Nicaragua, A History of US Intervention & Resistance, by Daniel KovalikOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action, Task Force on the Americas, and Venezuelanalysis
EPISODE: Mexico: Expanding Democracy and Defending SovereigntyGUEST: José Luis Granados Ceja, journalist with Venezuelanalysis and The Mexico Solidarity ProjectBACKGROUND: The international press is again bludgeoning Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this time accusing him of attacking the country's democratic institutions. It's a baseless charge intended to undermine a government that refuses total obedience to US hegemony.On February 23, an electoral reform bill received its final approval in the Mexican Senate en route to being signed into lawThe National Electoral Institute (INE) is widely recognized to be riddled with excess expenditure and a top-heavy bureaucracy. The new law simply mandates similar cost-saving measures to those that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has applied to other governmental departments. It eliminates duplicate functions at the local and district level, and fuses certain higher-level job descriptions. It also reins in eye-catching top salaries.The law also facilitates voting rights for the disabled, those held in pretrial detention, and the millions of migrants living abroad. It provides tougher sanctions for the endemic practice of vote-buying and enshrines in law the inclusion of minorities and members of vulnerable groups on candidate listsFOLLOW OUR GUEST:FacebookInstagramTwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:No, AMLO Is Not Undermining Mexican DemocracyVenezuelanalysisOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Alex Saab, Three Years as a Kidnapped DiplomatGUEST: Fiorella Isabel of The Convo CouchBACKGROUND:The case is a terrifying example of the US's continuing commitment to illegal, unilateral intervention and ‘regime change,' where no country is truly safe, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ (link to full article below)From his article: “June 12, 2023 was the third anniversary of the illegal kidnapping and imprisonment by the US of Alex Saab.Because the brutality and cruelty of the US blockade was wreaking havoc on the economy and millions of the most vulnerable in Venezuela were being deliberately denied their human rights to the most basic necessities of daily life, President Nicolas Maduro tasked Saab with traveling around the world procuring food, medicines and fuel for his country.Breaking every treaty, protocol, law and norm of international diplomacy, the US plotted to have Saab arrested while in transit to Iran to fulfill his diplomatic mission, by pressing the Cape Verde government to illegally arrest him on June 12 2020.”The plane Saab was traveling on was denied refueling in Morocco and Senegal thus being forced to land in Cape Verde. In his book, Never Give An Inch (2023), Donald Trump's secretary of state Mike Pompeo admits as much: “No other nation has the global reach to interrupt an Iran-Venezuela plot in real time and convince a small island nation to hold a wanted man.”FOLLOW OUR GUESTFacebook InstagramTwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against VenezuelaWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Alex Saab, Sanctions & the Extra-Judicial Reach of the U.S. (September 16, 2021)WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Film Screening + Discussion, Alex Saab A Kidnapped Diplomat (October 20, 2022)WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Saab Oral Argument Focuses on Legitimacy of Maduro Government (December 31, 2022)Free Alex Saab CampaignOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Resigns to Run for PresidentGUEST: Independent journalist Alina Duarte who joins us from Mexico CityBACKGROUND:Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, one of the leading contenders to be the country's next leader, said on Tuesday he will resign to focus on winning the presidential nomination of the ruling MORENA party for the 2024 election.Ebrard, a former mayor of Mexico City, wants to succeed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the standard-bearer of the left of center National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), which now dominates national politics.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Alina DuarteFacebookInstagramTwitterEn Re PodcastFacebookInstagramTwitterYouTubeADDITIONAL LINKS:Una jugada maestra, Lopez Obrador resuelve la sucesiónMexico's Fourth Transformation and Why the U.S. Wants to Stop ItVI Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), Desde Palacio Nacional (Septiembre 2021)238 Aniversario del Natalicio de Simón Bolívar, desde el Castillo de Chapultepec (Julio 2021) OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Isolationism Ends: Maduro Visits BrazilGUEST: Ricardo Vaz, political analyst and editor at Venezuelanalysis.comBACKGROUND: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro traveled to Brazil as part of an official visit to meet with his counterpart Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva where the pair discussed regional and international cooperation, including the potential entry of Venezuela into the BRICS bloc.The high-level meeting comes as part of joint efforts to strengthen their bilateral ties following the restoration of diplomatic and economic relations after years of tension under Lula's predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, who embraced Washington regime change plots against Maduro, backing the so-called “interim” government of opposition figure Juan Guaidó.Monday's bilateral meeting also focused on reactivating trade between the two countries, which fell precipitously after Bolsonaro's recognition of Guaidó, severely impacting populations on both sides of the border. The pair also discussed efforts to advance regional integration.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Ricardo Vaz: FacebookVenezuelanalysis:FacebookTwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Venezuela's Maduro Floats BRICS Entry in "Historic" Bilateral Meeting with Lula in BrazilToward a new UNASUR: Pathways for the Reactivation of South America IntegrationOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance (Stop the Machine! Create a New World) broadcast in partnership with: Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team; CODEPINK: Women For Peace; Common Frontiers; Council on Hemispheric Affairs; Friends of Latin America; IRTF - The InterReligious Task Force on Central America; Massachusetts Peace Action; and Task Force on the Americas
EPISODE: Ecuador's President Dissolves National Assembly Triggering Early ElectionsGUEST: Author and Journalist Joe Emersgerger. You can find his work published at CounterPunch, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), MintPressNews and more. Also, be sure to read his book Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in VenezuelaBACKGROUND:Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly by decree on May 17 bringing forward legislative and presidential elections and heading off an attempt by opposition politicians to impeach him.Opposition politicians wanted to impeach Lasso over accusations he disregarded warnings of embezzlement related to a contract at state-owned oil transportation company Flopec, charges the president denies.A majority of lawmakers had backed a resolution accusing Lasso of allowing the corrupt contract to continue after taking office in 2021, although a congressional oversight committee, which heard testimony from opposition lawmakers, officials, and Lasso's lawyer, said in its report it did not recommend impeachment.Lasso says the impeachment process - the first against an Ecuadorian president in decades - is politically motivated and has sparked a grave crisis that has threatened democracy. The dissolution was necessary, he said.Citing the crisis and inability to govern, Lasso invoked the constitution's so-called "two-way death" (Muerte Cruzada) provision, which allows the president to call elections for both his post and the assembly under certain circumstances, including if actions by the legislature are blocking the functioning of government.According to the constitution, he will now remain in office and rule by decree.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:FacebookTwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Ecuador's “Democratic Backsliding” Has Been Ongoing Since 2017, With US SupportElections in Ecuador Unmask Western Media DishonestyWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Ecuador Erupts against NeoliberalismWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: The Lasso Government Post-National StrikeOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Whatever Happened to that Plane? U.S. Unilateral Sanctions and the Saga of Venezuela's Emtrasur Cargo 747GUEST: Orlenys Ortiz, citizen journalist joining us from VenezuelaTRANSLATION: Carmelo Valasquez, Velasquez Translations, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaBACKGROUND:On May 3, 2023, the Argentinian press reported a US prosecutor requested the US Justice Department to order the definitive execution of the seizure order of Emtrasur's Boeing 747-300. (Empresa de Transporte Aerocargo del Sur). The plane arrived in Argentina in June 2022 in what was supposedly a routine cargo flight. Nonetheless, the aircraft, its cargo, and its crew quickly raised the alarms across Argentina, and it was seized by local authorities. Shortly after, US authorities got involved claiming the sale of the aircraft by the Iranian state carrier Mahan Air to Venezuela's Conviasa was a clear violation of the US Export Control Laws. Conviasa deployed the 747 on its cargo subsidiary Emtrasur.Almost a year has passed; the crew has been released, but the plane remains grounded in Buenos Aires. Venezuela's government has repeatedly requested the return of Emtrasur's Boeing 747. In the meantime, the US government has conducted a process to seize the aircraft. Argentina's Ministry of Justice has received a letter sent by the US Justice Department requesting that the aircraft be handed over to it.Argentina is now in a complex geopolitical spot. On the one hand, it can support the US' claims and deliver the aircraft. On the other hand, it can choose not to pick a fight with Venezuela and Iran, which is said to be closely watching the development of the crisis.Emtrasur acquired the aircraft in 2022. It operated a few cargo services across Latin America in 2022 before its grounding in Buenos Aires. According to the Department of Justice, Mahan Air violated the temporary Denial Order and US export control laws when it sold the aircraft to Emtrasur without the US Government's authorization. Other violations of US laws occurred between February and May 2022 when Emtrasur flew the aircraft between Caracas, Venezuela; Tehran, Iran; and Moscow, Russia, without US Government authorization.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:FacebookInstagram:TwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Emtrasur's 747 Detained in Buenos Aires: U.S. Attorney Requests Immediate Execution of SeizureUS Official Requests Seizure of Emtrasur's Grounded Boeing 747Diosdado CabelloOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: The Country is Not for Sale-Economic Development & Employment Zones (ZEDEs) versus National SovereigntyGUESTS: Beth Geglia, anthropology PhD, and Melinda St. Louis, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade WatchBACKGROUND:On May 3, Democratic U.S. lawmakers urged the U.S. Trade Representative and State Department to eliminate investor-state dispute settlement provisions from current and future trade deals and to intervene on behalf of Honduras against a U.S. company's nearly $11 billion claim against the country.In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Trade Representative Katherine Tai, 33 lawmakers said that investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) systems in trade deals constitute a "problematic corporate handout" that violates countries' sovereignty and democratic rights.ISDS mechanisms enable multinational corporations to sue the governments of foreign trading partners for profits they claim have been forfeited as a result of domestic policies designed to protect workers, consumers, and ecosystems. Such lawsuits challenge meaningful labor, product safety, and environmental standards, and the mere threat of them can even preempt the enactment of robust regulations, placing ISDS at the heart of what critics have called neoliberal globalization's "race to the bottom."ADDITIONAL LINKS:Senator Warren, Representative Doggett Call for Elimination of Investor-State Dispute Settlement System, Action on Behalf of Honduran GovernmentWarren Leads Call to End Dispute System “Weaponized” by Corporations Amid Honduras CaseCenter for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR)Honduras Solidarity NetworkInstitute for Policy Studies (IPS) Latin America Working Group (LAWG)Public Citizen/Global Trade WatchOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Guatemalan Political Crisis-June 25 Elections Set as Critics Slam DisqualificationsGUEST: Frank with The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISQUA)BACKGROUND:Campaigning began in earnest last month for Guatemala's general elections, with political messaging filling the streets, local broadcasts and social media. But less than three months before the June 25 vote, concerns are mounting among national and international observers over the integrity of the process.At least 30 political parties are set to contest the upcoming elections, with more than 22,000 candidates registered to run for the presidency, congress, regional parliament and councils across the country. But Guatemala's Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which governs elections, has blocked several opposition candidates from running on “dubious grounds."FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Facebook: InstagramTwitter ADDITIONAL LINKS:The Network in Solidarity with the People of GuatemalaThelma Cabrera: “El sistema nos quiere sacar de la jugada, pero ya estamos en la cancha”OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Visits BrazilGUEST: Camila Escalante, Kawsachun News-BrazilBACKGROUND:Russia's minister of foreign affairs, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Brasília on Monday for talks with his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira, in the latest of a series of bilateral encounters likely to ruffle the US.Lavrov arrived just as Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, returned from a state visit to China, and both missions are part of a diplomatic reset Lula has pursued since returning to power this year, as he strives to recover Brazil's international reputation after his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, dismantled Brazil's established tradition of cooperation. For Brazil, that means rebuilding and maintaining ties with all partners, regardless of geopolitical tensions elsewhere.Lavrov and Vieira said their talks had also focused on energy and trade. About a quarter of agricultural powerhouse Brazil's fertilizer imports come from Russia, while the two countries engaged in a record $9.8 billion in bilateral trade last year.Brazil was Lavrov's first stop on a weeklong Latin American tour that will also include Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:FacebookInstagramTwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Kawsachun NewsLula Cozies Up to America's EnemiesOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Burying 200 Years of The Monroe DoctrineGUEST: Carlos Ron, Venezuela Vice Minister of Foreign Relations for North AmericaBACKGROUND:The Monroe Doctrine, first articulated by U.S. President James Monroe on December 2, 1823, is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American foreign policy for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The doctrine remains in place today as a pillar of U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America & the Caribbean and no longer exclusively applies to European powers.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:FacebookInstagramTwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Latin America Policy Forum: Burying 200 Years of the U.S. Monroe DoctrineSimon Bolivar InstituteOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Reject U.S. Imperialism! Make Our Americas a Zone of PeaceGUESTS: Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas TeamMargaret Flowers, Co-Founder and Director of Popular Resistance & Host of the podcast Clearing the FogBACKGROUND:On Tuesday, April 4, The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), along with key partner organizations, launched an effort to activate the popular movements in our region in support of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) 2014 call to make the Americas region a “Zone of Peace.” This campaign will be informed by the Black Radical Peace Tradition. With its focus on the structures and interests that generate war and state violence—colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism and all forms of imperialism—the fight for a Zone of Peace is an attempt to expel all of these nefarious forces from our region.FOLLOW OUR GUESTS:Ajamu Baraka: Facebook TwitterBlack Alliance for Peace: Website Facebook TwitterMargaret Flowers: Facebook TwitterPopular Resistance: Website Facebook TwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Black Alliance for Peace Zone of Peace CampaignBlack Alliance for Peace Zone of Peace Press Conference and Campaign LaunchCELAC/Zone of Peace (2014)OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Argentina Celebrates 40 Years of Democracy and Human RightsGUEST: Franco Metaza, Director-General for Foreign Affairs of the Argentina National Senate.BACKGROUND:Last week, Argentina celebrated 40 years of democracy and human rights by hosting the Third World Forum of Human Rights (March 20-24) scheduled in tandem with its National Day of Remembrance for Truth & Justice. The Forum closed with a march and rally on March 24 which marked 47 years since the US-backed military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government on March 24, 1976, and installed the bloodiest dictatorship in the history of #Argentina remained in power until 1983.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Franco Metaza: TwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:III Foro Mundial de Derechos HumanosDay of Remembrance for Truth & JusticeArgentina commemorates victims of military dictatorship on the 47th anniversary of US-back CoupOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Mexico's Fourth Transformation and Why the U.S. Wants to Stop It We thank The Mexico Solidarity Project for participating in this episode as a special broadcast partner.GUEST: Kurt Hackbarth, Writer, Journalist and ActivistBACKGROUND:"Although the 4T has not fulfilled everyone's expectations, it has, in four years, created a governing movement that is taking control of its energy resources (including the nationalization of lithium) and is adopting a role of regional leadership in Latin America: two sins the United States has not historically forgiven anywhere." No, AMLO Is Not Undermining Mexican Democracy by Kurt HackbarthYou can find this article and many others on Mexico by Kurt at Jacobin.comFOLLOW OUR GUEST:Kurt HackbarthADDITIONAL LINKS:The Mexico Solidarity ProjectTwitter: WebsiteNo, AMLO is Not Undermining Mexican DemocracyWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Challenging the US Narrative on Mexico (April 13, 2022 with journalist Alina Duarte)OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Colombia-Total Peace and the Fight to Free All Political PrisonersGUESTS: Anthony Dest, Colombia Freedom CollectiveAjamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace National Organizer & BAP Haiti/Americas TeamBACKGROUND:In April 2021, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Colombia to demand change. They rejected decades of state violence and deepening inequality. Over the course of three months, the largest protest in Colombian history spread to over 800 municipalities throughout the country. The months-long protests played a huge role in creating the conditions for the election of Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez.Changes are afoot in Colombia, and the inauguration of President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Marquez on August 7, 2022 marked an important shift away from decades of political repression. However, more than 300 people accused of participating in the 2021 protests still remain incarcerated and/or are facing harsh sentences on trumped-up charges.Political prisoners from the 2021 National Strike are currently on a hunger strike in four prisons around the country. Despite numerous promises from the Petro administration to address their situation, the prisoners continue to face dire conditions. The only demand that would bring an end to the hunger strike: a response from the national government regarding the December 2022 proposal emerging from political prisoners in Palmira for the creation of a “Table for Dialogue” (mesa de diálogo).Last week, two hunger strikers in Jamundí sewed their mouths shut to refuse even water. As the strike enters its eighth day, various other hunger strikers are facing health complications.FOLLOW OUR GUESTS:Anthony Desthttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089157999945https://twitter.com/AnthonyDestAjamu Barakahttps://www.facebook.com/ajamu.barakahttps://twitter.com/ajamubarakaADDITIONAL LINKS:Black Alliance for PeaceColombia Freedom CollectiveColombian Peace Caravan: Bringing the Hope of “Total Peace” to Afro-Colombian and Indigenous TerritoriesHunger Strike by Political Prisoners Enters Eighth DayDecember 2022: Political Prisoners in Palmira Go On Hunger Strike WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Colombia Erupts Against NeoliberalismOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: The Devastating Effects of Militarization on Puerto Rico and Her People. How One Activist is Promoting Health Justice for Vieques & Culebra. GUEST: Monisha Rios, Puerto Rican psychologist, social worker and disabled US veteran. Founder and director of Centro Solidario de Puerto Rico.NOTE: Full visual presentation can be viewed here:BACKGROUND:The U.S. has been overtly and covertly intervening in Puerto Rico's internal affairs since 1898. Like the Spanish, British, Dutch, and the French, the U.S. understood the strategic value of the Puerto Rican archipelago, which would give their expanding empire a military advantage toward enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, thereby securing its established intent to dominate the Western Hemisphere. A new wave of militarization began soon after the change of colonial ownership, the implications of which would devastate the island municipalities of Culebra and Vieques. Culebra was militarized in 1901 and expelled the Navy in 1975. Vieques was militarized in 1941 and expelled the Navy in 2003.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Monisha Rios - https://www.facebook.com/monishaamieADDITIONAL LINKS:Episode illustration by Indi MaverickCentro Solidario de Puerto Rico is a fiscally sponsored project of Alliance for Global Justice Make a tax-deductible donation here:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Ending US Colonialism of Puerto RicoWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: The War Against Puerto Rico ContinuesOUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Peru - More than StatisticsIn today's episode, WTF host Teri Mattson shares some of the key findings of the Preliminary Report of the International Mission of Solidarity and Human Rights Delegation which arrived in Peru on February 7, 2023 and deployed its work in the country until the 13th of the same month. Teri was one of 19 human rights observers comprising the delegation.Episode photo courtesy of Manuel Ortiz (@manuortize)Links to the photo albums mentioned in the episode can be found belowFOLLOW:Teri Mattsonhttps://www.facebook.com/teri.mattson.3/https://www.instagram.com/terimattsontoo/https://twitter.com/hey_terDerechos Humanos sin Fronteras-Cuscohttps://www.facebook.com/derechossinfronteras.pehttps://www.instagram.com/derechossinfronteras/https://twitter.com/dhsfcusco Misión de Solidaridad Internacional y Derechos Humanoshttps://www.facebook.com/MisionDdhhhttps://www.instagram.com/misionddhh/https://twitter.com/MisionDdhhADDITIONAL LINKS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Peru National Protest Advances to Lima WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Live from Peru-National Strike, Day 40Plaza 2 de Mayo, Lima (February 9, 2023 - Marcos Sierras, Photographer)Juliaca to Cusco - Manuel Ortiz, Photographer (@manuortiz and @globalexchange)Short Delegation Synopsis (Lima & Cusco Visits)Mision de Solidarida Internacional y Derechos HumanosPreliminary Report: Peru February 2023 (Spanish)OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: National Strike, Day 40: A Conversation with Human Rights Activists in PeruNOTE: This is a follow-up conversation to our February 2 Episode with Peruvian activists Anahi Durand and Eliana Carlin. I have since visited Peru on a human rights observation delegation with Mision de Solidaridad Internacional y Derechos HumanosInterpretation provided by Jill Clark GollubGUESTS:Clau O'Brien Moscoso. She is an organizer with the Black Alliance for Peace in the Haiti/Americas Team. Originally from Barrios Altos, Lima, she grew up in New Jersey and now lives between both countries.Hiam Leyner Ayala Basilio: Leyner works in the legal area of the organization Human Rights without Borders, Cusco - Peru. It is a non-governmental organization that is part of the National Coordinator of Human Rights of Peru, which works in the defense, promotion and education of human rights in the region of Cusco, also, the organization is carrying out legal processes related to the criminalization of protesters by State repression.BACKGROUND:On December 7, 2022 a right-wing coup removed Perú's President Pedro Castillo Terrones from power. The predominantly poor indigenous rural and Amazonian communities resoundingly and overwhelmingly voted for Castillo, rejecting outright the neoliberal regime installed by the previous governments. Violence not seen since the Alberto Fujimori dictatorship (1990-2000), has been led by the Peruvian Armed Forces, under orders of coup-leader Dina Boluarte, the Fujimorista Fuerza Popular Party, and other political factions. It's been over 67 days since the parliamentary coup led by the right-wing forces of Fuerza Popular with their puppet Dina Boluarte, now commonly referred to as “usurper assassin,” at the helm. (Black Agenda Report 15 February)FOLLOW OUR GUESTS:Clau O'Brien Moscosohttps://twitter.com/PiolinSghostBlack Alliance for Peacehttps://www.facebook.com/BlackAllianceforPeacehttps://www.instagram.com/blackallianceforpeace/https://twitter.com/Blacks4PeaceDerechos Humanos sin Fronteras-Cuscohttps://www.facebook.com/derechossinfronteras.pehttps://www.instagram.com/derechossinfronteras/https://twitter.com/dhsfcusco Misión de Solidaridad Internacional y Derechos Humanoshttps://www.facebook.com/MisionDdhhhttps://www.instagram.com/misionddhh/https://twitter.com/MisionDdhhADDITIONAL LINKS:Black Agenda Report: Report from Lima, PeruWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Peru National Protest Advances to Lima Plaza 2 de Mayo, Lima (February 9, 2023 - Marcos Sierras, Photographer)Juliaca to Cusco - Manuel Ortiz, Photographer Short Delegation Synopsis (Lima & Cusco Visits)Mision de Solidarida Internacional y Derechos HumanosPreliminary Report: Peru February 2023 (Spanish)OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team; CODEPINK: Women For Peace; Common Frontiers; Council on Hemispheric Affairs; Friends of Latin America; IRTF - The InterReligious Task Force on Central America; Massachusetts Peace Action; and Task Force on the America
EPISODE: “So They Can See Us” Peru's National Protest Advances to LimaGUESTS:Anahi Durand is a sociologist, former Minister of Women & Vulnerable Populations for the Castillo Presidency and founder of Mujers por Una Nueva Constitución (Women for a New Constitution); and,Eliana Carlin is a Peruvian political scientist, lecturer and researcher. She is also Co-founder of Heroinas Peruanas and No a Keiko (Peruvian Heroines and No to Keiko)Note: This episode is in Spanish with English translation. Interpretation provided by Carmelo Velasquez of Velasquez Translations, Buenos AiresBACKGROUND:Deadly protests have gripped Peru since Congress expelled the country's first working-class president, Pedro Castillo.Timeline of events since December 7, 2022:Dec 7, 2022: The surprise winner of the July 2021 presidential election, Castillo comes under immediate attack from the right. On December 7 he attempts to dissolve Congress before it can debate a third impeachment motion against him and says he will form an emergency government and rule by decree. Lawmakers vote overwhelmingly to remove him from office for "moral incapacity" to exercise power. He is arrested for "rebellion". Vice President Dina Boluarte becomes Peru's first woman president. She says she intends to serve out the rest of Castillo's term, until July 2026.The United States pledges to work with Boluarte.Dec 10: Pro-Castillo protests spread, with demonstrators blocking roads and burning tires across the country.Dec 11: Two people are killed in Andahuaylas in the south.Dec 12: Hundreds of protestors temporarily block the airport runway in Peru's second biggest city, Arequipa.Dec 14: Peru announces a 30-day nationwide state of emergency.Dec 15: Castillo's pre-trial detention is prolonged for 18 months.Dec 16: The pro-Castillo protests spread to the town of Cusco, the gateway to Peru's top tourist attraction, the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, with rail services, road and air links closed.Dec 20: As the death toll rises, Congress votes to bring forward the general election from 2026 to April 2024.Jan 9, 2023: Eighteen people are killed in clashes with security forces triggered when demonstrators try to storm an airport in the southeastern city of Juliaca. The prosecutor's office says it will investigate Boluarte for genocide over the protests. The next day Peru's government declares a state of emergency in Lima and three other regions.Jan 19: Clashes with police punctuate a march by thousands through the capital for a large anti-government rally.Jan 21: Peru closes Machu PicchuJan 24: Lima sees its most violent clashes since the start of the crisis.Jan 26: The government says police and soldiers will dismantle roadblocks erected by protesters on the nation's highways.Jan 28: Congress rejects a request by Boluarte to advance elections to December 2023.Jan 31: The Peruvian Foreign Minister led, in Washington DC, a meeting between Peruvian businessmen and their counterparts from the US Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of multinational companies from mining, finance, technology, and health, among other sectors attended the event. .FOLLOW OUR GUESTS:Anahi Durand: TwitterEliana Carlin: TwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:House Democrat letter to President Joe Biden asking him to halt security assistance to the government of PeruWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Lawfare, the Case of Argentina and PeruWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: CELAC 2023-Latin American Integration includes the Voices of the PeopleGUEST: Alejandro Rusconi, Secretary of International Relations for Evita MovementSpanish to English interpretation provided by Carmelo Velasquez of Velasquez Translations, Buenos AiresBACKGROUND:Founded in 2011,.CELAC, or the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, is a multilateral group of 33 countries from across the Western Hemisphere that excludes Canada and the United States It was created to be an alternative forum for Latin American countries. Inaugural leaders, such as Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, envisioned the group as a counterweight to the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS), which they viewed as dominated by the United States. CELAC, unlike the OAS, allows Cuba to be a member. Its stated goals are to promote regional integration and cooperation. CELAC represents 600 million people.The Seventh Summit of CELAC leaders was held Tuesday, January 24 in Buenos Aires hosted by CELAC President Pro-Tempore Alberto Fernandez, current President of Argentina.The seventh summit witnessed two firsts: At the invitation of CELAC President Alberto Fernandez, the United States was invited and sent US Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas Christopher Dodd U.S. Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas The Summit was preceded by a joint proposal of social and trade union organizations. The Social Summit took place Monday, January 23 in the city of Buenos Aires, at the former Naval Mechanics School, a former secret detention center during the military dictatorship, which today functions as a space resigned from the perspective of human rights. With the presence of about 300 leaders of social organizations, unions and popular movements from all over the region, the meeting was a forum to discuss the most relevant issues affecting the different countries in the context of the Conference of Heads of State and Government.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ale_rusconiADDITIONAL LINKS:CELACDeclaracion de Buenos AiresSocial and Union Organizations Meet the Day before the CELAC Summit in ArgentinaArgentina Hosts 7the CELAC Summit amid New Presidential LandscapeArgentina and Brazil Relaunch their Strategic AllianceWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration IndustryGUEST: Adrienne Pine, Author and Medical Anthropologist. For the past 17 years, she has worked in US federal asylum courts as a country conditions expert for Honduran asylum seekers in more than 100 asylum cases.BACKGROUND:On the heels of last week's North America Trilateral Summit, from which not much changed within the migratory system, today's episode will focus on migration as a for-profit industry which has turned migrating humans into commodities.Our guest Adrienne Pine is co-editor of the book Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry published by PM Press in November 2020. Here is brief description:Through essays, artworks, photographs, infographics, and illustrations, Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry regards the global asylum regime as an industry characterized by profit-making activity: brokers who facilitate border crossings for a fee; contractors and firms that erect walls, fences, and watchtowers while lobbying governments for bigger “security” budgets; corporations running private detention centers and “managing” deportations; private lawyers charging exorbitant fees; “expert” witnesses; and NGO staff establishing careers while placing asylum seekers into new regimes of monitored vulnerability. Humanity is not for sale, and no one is illegal.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drpineTwitter: https://twitter.com/adriennepineADDITIONAL LINKS:Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration IndustryOpen Letter to US Ambassador: Stop the Assault on Honduran's Human RightsSocial Struggle in Neoliberal Central AmericaClimate Change, Displacement and the Border Industrial ComplexWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: North America's Trilateral SummitGUESTS: Marco Castillo, Co-Executive Director of Global ExchangeJim Hodgson, Canadian JournalistBACKGROUND:The North American Leaders' Summit (NALS), sometimes called the Three Amigos Summit in the popular press,[1][2][3] is the trilateral summit between the prime minister of Canada, the president of Mexico, and the president of the United States.[4] The summits were initially held as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a continent-level dialogue between the three countries established in 2005, and continued after SPP became inactive in 2009.[5][6]The United States, Mexico and Canada on Tuesday, January 10 vowed to tighten economic ties, producing more goods regionally and boosting semiconductor output, even as integration is hampered by an ongoing dispute over Mexico's energy policies.U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico City and pledged to beef up supply chains after weathering serious disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic."We're working to a future to strengthen our cooperation on supply chains and critical minerals so we can continue to accelerate in our efforts to build the technologies of tomorrow - right here ion North America," Biden said in a joint news conference with his fellow leaders after their meeting.Lopez Obrador said the region would promote economic development by creating a committee for import substitution to make North America less dependent on other parts of the world.The White House said the three countries would improve legal pathways for migrants, and Lopez Obrador again urged Biden to press Congress to enact measures that would regularize the migration status of millions of Mexicans in the United States.Trudeau portrayed Canada as an original architect and the principal guardian of free trade on the continent as he called for a new era of three-way growth. And, he called on would-be investors to take a leap of faith similar to the one the NAFTA pioneers did in the early 1990s.FOLLOW OUR GUESTS:Marco Castillo:https://www.facebook.com/marco.castillo.188https://twitter.com/MarcoAnCasMarJim Hodgson:https://www.facebook.com/jim.hodgson1Global Exchange:https://www.facebook.com/GlobalExchangehttps://twitter.com/globalexchangeADDITIONAL LINKS:Solving Immigration Starts with Helping Families Feel Safe at Homehttps://www.newsweek.com/solving-immigration-starts-helping-families-feel-safe-home-opinion-1771414https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2023/01/10/declaration-north-america-dnaWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: 219 Years of Haitian Independence, a history of the first revolution in The AmericasGUESTS: Pierre LaBossiere, Judith “Mirk” Mirkinson and Seth Donnelly of The Haiti Action CommitteeBACKGROUND:On January 1, 1804, Haiti became an independent republic, following the revolution which had begun 13 years earlier as a rebellion of enslaved people against slavery and French colonialism.Previously known as Saint-Domingue, it was the most profitable colony in the world, generating greater revenue than all of the continental North American colonies combined. This immense wealth was generated by the sweat and blood of enslaved Africans who were being worked to death in their tens of thousands on coffee and sugar plantations.Shortly after the French revolution, which supposedly espoused the ideals of "liberty, equality and fraternity," on August 22, 1791 enslaved people rose up, demanding those ideals be realized, and slavery and colonialism abolished. Over the coming years, the rebels successfully defeated the combined armies of the world's biggest colonial powers: France, Spain and Britain. The 1804 declaration of independence abolished the colony of Saint-Domingue and reinstated the Indigenous Taíno name of Hayti. Europe and the US then promptly ostracized the fledgling republic, causing severe economic hardship.In 1825, France finally agreed to recognise Haiti's independence, provided it compensate former enslavers to the tune of 150 million gold francs ($21 billion today) - a ransom which deeply impoverished the government and was not fully repaid until 1947. The United States only recognised Haitian independence in 1862, but this did not prevent it from invading and occupying it in 1915.FOLLOW HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HaitiActionCommitteeTwitter: https://twitter.com/HaitiAction1 ADDITIONAL LINKS:Haiti Action Committee https://haitisolidarity.netHaiti Emergency Relief Fund https://haitiemergencyrelief.org/ The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haitihttps://haitiliberte.com/the-lasalin-massacre-and-the-human-rights-crisis-in-haiti/ WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
TODAY'S EPISODE: Saab Oral Argument Focuses on Legitimacy of Maduro Government GUEST: Author, labor attorney and human rights activist Dan Kovalik of Council on Hemispheric AffairsBACKGROUND:On December 20, in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, Judge Robert N. Scola heard oral arguments on Alex Saab's motion to dismiss the case against him. The factual issue for the Court to decide was “whether Mr. Saab was a special envoy from Venezuela to Iran traveling on a mission when he was detained in Cape Verde and extradited to the U.S. and, therefore, entitled to diplomatic immunity.” Dan was present for the hearing and will discuss, in detail, the hearing results. WTF has been following The Case of Alex Saab since his detainment on Cape Verde 12 June 2020. Today is our third update.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dan.kovalik.9Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielmkovalikADDITIONAL LINKS:Judge Scola Decision Denying Alex Saab's Right to Diplomatic ImmunityStatement by the Venezuela Government on the US Ruling Against Alex SaabSaab Oral Argument Focuses on Legitimacy of Maduro Government, Daniel KovalikSaab Hearing Proves He Deserves Diplomatic Immunity, Exposes Prosecution's Duplicity, Daniel KovalikAlex Saab: A Kidnapped Diplomat. Film Screening followed by Q & A (WTF Episode 2)Alex Saab, Sanctions and the Extra-Judicial Reach of the U.S (WTF Episode 1)WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
TODAY'S EPISODE: Lawfare: Judicial & Legislative Coups in Argentina and PeruJoining me today is my friend and co-host Raul Burbano. Raul is the Program Director for Common Frontiers based in Toronto. Common Frontiers is a WTF broadcast partnerGUESTS: Aníbal Ibarra and Daniela Ortiz.Anibal is the former Mayor of Buenos Aires and Federal Prosecutor. Anibal is currently a criminal defense lawyer and member of the Broad Front political party. Daniela Ortiz is a peruvian artist and antiracist militant who lives in Urubamba, Peru. She was part of the Campaign against immigrant detention centers in Catalunya from 2009 until 2012, The Espacio del Inmigrante in Barcelona from 2012 until 2016, during the pandemic she was part of the Red de Cuidados Anti Racistas in Barcelona and was founder of the Madrecitas Colectiva against judicialization of motherhood and childhood of migrant families and the removal of custodies. She now is part of the Frente de Lucha Materna in Peru where she currently lives.BACKGROUND:Argentina:On Tuesday, December 6, An Argentine court sentenced Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to six years in jail and disqualified her from holding public office in a high-profile corruption case.The vice president, who has temporary immunity due to her current role, will not face immediate prison time and is expected to appeal the sentence, with the case likely to spend years winding through higher courts.Technically, she could run for office while the appeals are pending, but she said on Tuesday that she "would not be a candidate for anything" in next year's general election.Fernandez de Kirchner, who served as president for two terms between 2007 and 2015 and commands rock-star crowds of supporters, faced charges of alleged corruption in the awarding of public works during her presidencyThe court acquitted her on another count of "illicit association".Peru:The crisis in Peru has reached the streets, after Congress dismissed former President Pedro Castillo on December 7 for wanting to dissolve Parliament and establish an emergency government. The appointment of Vice President Dina Boluarte as President of the Republic, far from bringing calm, has led to a wave of protests in Lima and in the interior of the country.Faced with this situation, Boluarte declared yesterday a 30-day state of emergency throughout the country and presented to Congress a proposal to advance the general elections to April 2024, two years ahead of schedule. Now possibly 2023.Many defend the return of Castillo -now detained in preventive detention-, but there are at least three other claims on the streets.The resignation of President Dina BoluarteClosing of the Current CongressA Constituent AssemblyFOLLOW OUR GUESTSRaul BurbanoAnibal IbarraDaniela OrtizFrente de Lucha MaternaADDITIONAL LINKS:Argentina's Vice President Faces a "Media-Judicial Firing Squad"Peru Goes to the Polls: 2021 Presidential ElectionsPedro Castillo Assumes the Presidency of PeruWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.
EPISODE: Brazil's Lula da Silva: A Victory of an Immense Democratic MovementGUEST: Michael Fox who is an independent journalist and the podcast host of Brazil on Fire a NACLA and Real News productionBACKGROUNDLuiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was elected the next president of Brazil, in a stunning comeback following a tight run-off race on Sunday, October 30. His victory is one of an Immense Movement returning democracy to Latin America's largest country, after four years of Jair Bolsonaro's far-right administration.The 76-year-old politician's win represents the return of the left into power in Brazil, and concludes a triumphant personal comeback for Lula, after a series of corruption allegations lead to his imprisonment for 580 days. The sentences were later annulled by the Supreme Court, clearing his path to run for reelection.“They tried to bury me alive and I'm here,” he said in a jubilant speech last Sunday.He will take the reins of a country plagued by gross inequality that is still struggling to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Approximately 9.6 million people fell under the poverty line between 2019 and 2021, and literacy and school attendance rates have fallen. He will also be faced with a deeply fractured nation and urgent environmental issues, including rampant deforestation in the Amazon.This will be Lula's third term, after previously governing Brazil for two consecutive terms between 2003 and 2010.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:TwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:Brazil on FireLatin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century SocialismWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas,
With guest Ronaldo Ortiz, National Coordinator for FRENADESO (El Frente Amplio por la Democracia, Panamá)This episode is bilingual.For English subtitles, please visit: https://youtu.be/s3MooQE9w_EBackground:Earlier this week, The Panamanian government and protesters edged closer to an agreement to end a weeks-long cost-of-living revolt that has blocked roads, interrupted food supplies and damaged the economy. Authorities agreed in the early morning hours of July 25 to reduce the price of 72 basic consumer items by some 30 percent on average.For three weeks, amid worsening economic woes for Panama, protesters demanding lower fuel, food and medicine prices have blockaded the crucial Pan-American Highway and other major roads with stalled trucks and burning tires. Some have clashed with police.Despite its dollarized economy and impressive growth figures, the country of 4.4 million people has one of the world's highest rates of social inequality, with poor access to health services, education and clean drinking water in some areas.The demonstrations have triggered food and fuel shortages in some parts of the country, and the business sector says some $500 million has been lost.Even before the talks started, the government had lowered the price of 18 basic products and that of fuel from $5.20 per gallon to $3.25 in an unsuccessful bid to end the standoff.Protesters had demanded a lowering of the price of 82 products and want a limit to be imposed on company profits, a measure the government has rejected.Other demands include reducing the price of medicines and electricity, increasing investment in education and the public health system, and measures against government corruption.Follow our Guest:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ronaldo.ortiz.710667Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronaldo_ortiz_1310/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sipu1310Additional Links:FRENADESO Panama: https://www.facebook.com/frenadeso.panamaFRENADESO: https://twitter.com/CELIOGUERRAIn partnership with Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Friends of Latin America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, original broadcasts of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean can be viewed every Wednesday at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on CODEPINK YouTube Live
Guest: Marco Castillo, Executive Director of Global Exchange and coordinator for Nuestra RedBackground:On July 12 when Mexican president Lopez Obrador traveled to Washington DC his most exciting encounter for Mexicans (both in the U.S. and in Mexico) was not his meeting with President Biden, but his impromptu encounter with well wishers outside his hotel room at The Lombardy. A video of the encounter went viral. It showed the president (known by his initials AMLO) sticking his head out the window, blowing kisses, catching a bouquet of flowers thrown to him, and being serenaded by mariachis singing “Amigo” (You are my soul brother, a friend that in every way and day is always with me).AMLO's meeting with Biden included such agenda items as: prioritizing Mexico's sovereignty, curbing migration by offering more visa options, and inflation.López Obrador, who spoke for over 30 minutes in the Oval Office, reminded Biden of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's “Good Neighbor” policy, which avoided interference in domestic affairs in Latin America, while also engaging in reciprocal exchanges with that region, such as trade.On Monday, the Mexican President revealed that during his DC visit he gave a letter to President Biden in which he defended Julian Assange's innocence and renewed a previous offer of asylum to the WikiLeaks founder.Follow our Guest:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marco.castil...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macocm/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcoAnCasMarAdditional Links:AMLO Is Trying to Free Mexico and Latin America From the US's Imperial Grip: https://jacobin.com/2022/07/amlo-mexi...Global Exchange: https://globalexchange.org/NuestraRed: https://twitter.com/NuestraRedMxWTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: VP Harris Tells Guatemalans "Do Not Come": https://youtu.be/oZnFTUeYJT8In partnership with Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Friends of Latin America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, original broadcasts of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean can be viewed every Wednesday at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on CODEPINK YouTube Live
Today's Episode: Tell the White House: Cuba is not a Sponsor of TerrorGuest: activist, author and co-founder of CODEPINK, Medea Benjamin. BackgroundIn the last days of the outgoing Trump administration, then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added Cuba back onto the list of state sponsors of terrorism, after it had been removed from the list in 2015 by the Obama-Biden administration. After a significant review, the Obama-Biden White House had certified that “(i) the Government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period; and (ii) the Government of Cuba has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.” Trump's re-designation of Cuba to the list was purely a political move to please conservative Cuban-Americans. The excuse was that Cuba was purportedly providing safe haven for Colombian insurgents, but these insurgents were in Cuba because of the island's role in facilitating the historic Peace Accords between the Colombian government and a guerrilla group. Insurgent activities years ago during Colombia's civil strife does not fit the definition of international terrorism, and the guerilla representatives were in Cuba as part of an internationally recognized process of peace negotiations supported by the United States, Norway, Colombia and other nations. By being on this list, Cuba is subjected to a series of sanctions and international financial restrictions that limit the nation's ability to carry out critical financial transactions, including those needed to advance its efforts to combat the pandemic and reboot its economy.Follow our GuestFacebookInstagramTwitterAdditional Linkshttps://www.codepink.org/cuba-no-terrorIn partnership with Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Friends of Latin America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, original broadcasts of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean can be viewed every Wednesday at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on CODEPINK YouTube Live
Episode: Ecuador-The Lasso Government Post-National StrikeWhich is a follow-up to our June 22 episode “Ecuador Erupts against Neoliberalism with guest Camila Escalante of Kawsachun News. Guest: author and journalist Joe Emersberger. You can find his work published at FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and be sure to read his book Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in VenezuelaBACKGROUND:Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso survived an impeachment vote on Tuesday, June 28 after a left opposition party failed to rally other smaller groups in congress to oust him as his government moved to make concessions to defuse the political crisis. With only 80 of 137 lawmakers voting to remove Lasso, the impeachment attempt failed to clear the 92-vote hurdle needed to remove the president from office. Another 48 lawmakers rejected the motion, with nine abstaining after a session that lasted about 12 hours and included three voting attempts.A week later on Tuesday, July 5, Lasso appointed Pablo Arosemena, governor of Ecuador's Guayas province, as the Andean country's new minister of economy and finances, following the resignation of Simon Cueva, while also naming new ministers for transport, and urban development and housing.The appointments came hours after Lasso accepted Cueva's resignation, as well as those of former Health Minister Ximena Garzon and former Transport Minister Marcelo Cabrera.The changes follow a deal signed between the government and indigenous leaders to end demonstrations across the country last week. read moreFOLLOW OUR GUEST:FacebookTwitterADDITIONAL LINKS:The National Strike in Ecuador: A Socialist ReadingIn partnership with Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Friends of Latin America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, original broadcasts of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean can be viewed every Wednesday at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on CODEPINK YouTube Live
Today's Episode: Argentina-BRICS, CELAC and the OASGuest: Franco Metaza,Director-General for Foreign Affairs of the Argentina National Senate.Guest Bio:Franco Metaza is a political activist of Argentina. He is involved in the peronist-kirchnerista movement of “La Campora”. He has a degree in Government and International Relations. He did his degree thesis on the Mercosur Parliament. He has held different positions related to international relations in the General Secretary of Argentina Presidency, Chamber of Representatives and the National Bank of Argentina. He participated in several G20 summits leading the youth delegation from his country (Mexico 2012, Russia 2013, Australia 2014). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Defense.Background:"While the White House was thinking about what else to turn off in the world, ban or spoil, Argentina and Iran applied to join the BRICS," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, currently in Europe, recently reiterated his desire for his country to join BRICS.An Argentine government source said there was no "formal process" to do so as yet but that was the country's intention."Argentine authorities have already publicly expressed their willingness to join. It is a process that has only just begun," the source said, asking not to be named.Glossary:BRICSThe term BRIC was coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 to describe the rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The BRIC powers had their first summit in 2009 in Russia. South Africa joined in 2010.BRICS account for more than 40% of the world's population and about 26% of the global economy.China is currently Argentina's main trading partner outside South America.India is Argentina's fourth largest trading partner and the fourth largest destination of Argentina's exportsCELACThe Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is an intergovernmental mechanism for dialogue and political agreement, which includes permanently thirty-two countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a regional forum that brings together all of Latin America and the Caribbean countries.Argentina is now the president pro-tem of CELAC succeeding Mexico after the summit in Mexico City September 18, 2021OASThe Organization of American Statees is an international organization that was founded on 30 April 1948 for the purposes of solidarity and co-operation among its member states within the Americas. Headquartered in the US capital, Washington, D.C., the OAS has 34 members, which are independent states in the Americas.[2] Since the 1990s, the organization has focused on election monitoring. The head of the OAS is the Secretary General; the incumbent is Uruguayan Luis Almagro.Mentioned in this Episode:Observing the Observers: The OAS in the 2019 Bolivia ElectionsIn partnership with Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Friends of Latin America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, original broadcasts of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean can be viewed every Wednesday at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on CODEPINK YouTube Live
Todays' episode: Colombia Presidential Elections move to a Second RoundGuest Raul Burbano, Executive Director of Common Frontiers based in Toronto.Background:Two anti-establishment candidates, Gustavo Petro, a centrist and Rodolfo Hernández, a right-wing populist, captured the top two spots in Colombia's presidential election on May 29 delivering a stunning blow to Colombia's dominant conservative political class.The two men will compete in a runoff election on June 19 that is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in the country's history. At stake is the country's economic vision, the restoration of democratic integrity and the livelihoods of millions of people pushed into poverty during the pandemic, particularly women and children.With more than 99 percent of the ballots counted on Sunday evening, Mr. Petro received more than 40 percent of the vote, while Mr. Hernández received just over 28 percent. Mr. Hernández beat by more than four percentage points the conservative establishment candidate, Federico Gutiérrez, who had been polling in second place.Mr. Hernández's unexpected second-place victory shows a nation hungry to elect anyone who is not represented by the country's mainstream conservative leaders. If Mr. Petro ultimately wins in the second round of voting, it would mark a watershed moment for one of the most politically conservative societies in Latin America, and allow Colombians to build a new future.Additional Links:Common Frontiers Preliminary Impressions of Colombia's 2022 Presidential ElectionsRabble joins the Colombian Electoral Accompaniment DelegationIn partnership with Friends of Latin America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, original broadcasts of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean can be viewed every Wednesday at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on CODEPINK YouTube Live
The Caravan of Mothers of Disappeared Migrants and the Manos Unidas Cooperative This week in La Voz en Breve, journalist Mariel Fiori has a show on education and family. The Caravan of Mothers of Disappeared Migrants is in New York City today and Mariel spoke with Irma Yolanda Pérez Morales from the Association of Relatives of Disappeared Migrants of Guatemala (AFAMIDEG); Angela Orfilia Lacayo Alfaro, from the Committee of Relatives of Missing Migrants Amor y Fe (COMIDEAF) based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Aracely de Mejía, Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Migrants of El Salvador (COFAMIDE); Bertila Parada de Osorio, Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Migrants of El Salvador (COFAMIDE), who found the remains of her son in a grave in Mexico; and with Keren Morales, of the Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Migrants from the South based in Choluteca, Honduras (COFAMIDES) and sister of a disappeared migrant. During the last 16 years, hundreds of mothers and other family members have traveled through Mexico in order to search for, report and make visible cases of enforced disappearances. This year, for the first time, representatives of this movement came to the United States to continue their search, denunciation and visibility struggle. They also demand changes in the foreign policy of the United States to drastically reduce the fundamental causes that push people to migrate and that the Law called Berta Cáceres be approved so that the United States does not send money to drug governments, such as Honduras. In order to educate and exchange with the people of the United States on the issue of forced disappearances, the root causes and the struggles carried out by social movements in different countries, they will have a videoconference today at 8pm via zoom, “Hasta that we find them: the caravan of mothers of disappeared migrants and the fundamental causes of Migration." Another group of women who are dedicated to shaking up the status quo are the founders and directors of the Manos Unidas umbrella cooperative in Pittsfield, MA, with projects that help other people open their own cooperative, a type of business that generates income. where everyone wins. The typical exploitation of capitalism is conspicuous by its absence, thanks to the solidarity economy. I spoke with Anaelisa Jacobsen, director emeritus, Nancy Gómez and Mariam Orengo, co-directors, about their projects, such as Root & Dreams and Mustard Seeds, promoting sustainable food and a bilingual magazine on art and social justice, Common Frontiers. You can contact Manos Unidas by email: Rootsandmustardseeds@gmail.com, Manosunidasorg@gmail.com, or by phone at (413) 841-8935 or (413) 310-8944. La Caravana de Madres de Migrantes Desaparecidos y la Cooperativa Manos Unidas Esta semana en La Voz en Breve, la periodista Mariel Fiori tiene un programa de educación y familia. Está en la ciudad de Nueva York hoy la Caravana de Madres de Personas Migrantes Desaparecidas y Mariel conversó con Irma Yolanda Pérez Morales de la Asociación de Familiares de Migrantes Desaparecidos de Guatemala (AFAMIDEG); Angela Orfilia Lacayo Alfaro, del Comité de Familiares de Migrantes Desaparecidos Amor y Fe (COMIDEAF) con sede en Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Aracely de Mejía, Comité de Familiares de Migrantes Desaparecidos de El Salvador (COFAMIDE); Bertila Parada de Osorio, Comité de Familiares de Migrantes Desaparecidos de El Salvador (COFAMIDE), quien encontró los restos de su hijo en una fosa en México; y con Keren Morales, del Comité de Familiares de Migrantes Desaparecidos del Sur con sede en Choluteca, Honduras (COFAMIDES) y hermana de migrante desaparecido. Durante los últimos 16 años, cientos de madres y otros familiares han viajado por México con el fin de buscar, denunciar y visibilizar casos de desapariciones forzadas. Este año, por primera vez, representantes de este movimiento llegaron a Estados Unidos para continuar su lucha de búsqueda, denuncia y visibilización. También exigen cambios en la política exterior de Estados Unidos para disminuir drásticamente las causas fundamentales que empujan a las personas a migrar y que se apruebe la Ley llamada de Berta Cáceres para que Estados Unidos no envíe dinero a narco gobiernos, como Honduras. Con el objetivo de educar e intercambiar con el pueblo de Estados Unidos sobre el tema de las desapariciones forzadas, las causas profundas y las luchas que llevan a cabo los movimientos sociales en diferentes países, tendrán una videoconferencia hoy a las 8pmvia zoom, “Hasta que los encontremos: la caravana de madres de migrantes desaparecidos y las causas fundamentales de la Migración”. Otro grupo de mujeres que se dedican a sacudir el status quo, son las fundadoras y directoras de la cooperativa sombrilla Manos Unidas, de Pittsfield, MA, con proyectos que ayudan a otras personas a abrir su propia cooperativa, un tipo de negocio que genera ingresos en donde todes ganan. La explotación típica del capitalismo brilla por su ausencia, gracias a la economía solidaria. Mariel conversó con Anaelisa Jacobsen, directora emeritus, Nancy Gómez y Mariam Orengo, co-directoras, sobre sus proyectos, como Root & Dreams and Mustard Seeds, promover los alimentos sostenibles y una revista bilingüe sobre arte y justicia social, Fronteras comunes. Pueden contactar a Manos Unidas por correo electrónico: Rootsandmustardseeds@gmail.com, Manosunidasorg@gmail.com, o por teléfono al (413) 841-8935 o (413) 310-8944.
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Common Frontiers director Raul Burbano, about the up rising in Colombia. From April 28 to May 8, the violent actions of the state security forces resulted in the death of least 47 people, the arbitrary detention of 963 people, 28 victims ofeye-related injuries, and 12 victims of sexual violence. In total, they registered 1,876 cases of police violence. Yet despite the violence people kept coming out in defiance of the latest austerity package introduce by president Duque. Colombia has been known for decades, as the epicentre for violence against indigenous movements and workers. A country with seven USA military bases, intimidating their neighbours and its local population. Raul reminds us that revolution is still a dance for people in Latin America, as people correct the history of colonization and conquest of America as a story of unceasing dignity. Not a day has gone without rebellion to injustice, repression and exploitation.These are challenging times for everyone, more than ever we need to support independent media, consider supporting this show at www.latinwavesmedia.com
NAFTA 2.0 – Is it better for workers than NAFTA? - LRPN Livestream Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members. Guests for February 10th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Lori Wallach (Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch), Eric Gottwald (AFL-CIO Trade Specialist), Alejandro Villamar (Mexican Action Network Against Free Trade), and Rick Arnold (Canada’s Common Frontiers). LRPN Hosts: Jacob Morrison (The Valley Labor Report) and Judy Ancel (The Heartland Labor Forum). Topics Discussed: Will the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement fix NAFTA? Will it stop the drain of jobs from the US and Canada to Mexico? Will Mexican workers finally get the same crummy labor rights as we have in the U.S? What are the prospects for real North American labor solidarity to counter the corporate giants who move our jobs around like peas in a shell game? Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab). About the Labor Radio Podcast Network The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Resources include a weekly podcast summarizing shows produced by network members, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows and how audiences can find them, a database for contacting expert guests, access to a private listserv for Network members, and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support amongst members. Launched in April 2020, the Labor Radio Podcast Network focuses on working class issues that are often overlooked in the corporate-controlled media. The goal of the network is to help raise the voices of working people and strengthen organized labor to demand and achieve better treatment from workplaces and elected officials. If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org. Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/ WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/ #LaborRadioPod #1U #UnionStrong
The Labor Radio Podcast Network's Weekly Wednesday Livestream features interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-filers and experts about current labor issues. Network members take turns co-hosting the show, which airs Wednesdays at 7p EST and is available on Facebook and YouTube. Guests for February 10th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Lori Wallach (Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch), Eric Gottwald (AFL-CIO Trade Specialist), Alejandro Villamar (Mexican Action Network Against Free Trade), and Rick Arnold (Canada's Common Frontiers). LRPN Hosts: Jacob Morrison (The Valley Labor Report) and Judy Ancel (The Heartland Labor Forum). This is an excerpt of the full show. The LRPN Livestream pod extra is produced and edited by Evan Matthew Papp and Chris Garlock. #LaborRadioPod
Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members. Guests for February 10th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Lori Wallach (Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch), Eric Gottwald (AFL-CIO Trade Specialist), Alejandro Villamar (Mexican Action Network Against Free Trade), and Rick Arnold (Canada’s Common Frontiers). LRPN Hosts: Jacob Morrison (The Valley Labor Report) and Judy Ancel (The Heartland Labor Forum). Topics Discussed: Will the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement fix NAFTA? Will it stop the drain of jobs from the US and Canada to Mexico? Will Mexican workers finally get the same crummy labor rights as we have in the U.S? What are the prospects for real North American labor solidarity to counter the corporate giants who move our jobs around like peas in a shell game? Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab). About the Labor Radio Podcast Network The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Resources include a weekly podcast summarizing shows produced by network members, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows and how audiences can find them, a database for contacting expert guests, access to a private listserv for Network members, and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support amongst members. Launched in April 2020, the Labor Radio Podcast Network focuses on working class issues that are often overlooked in the corporate-controlled media. The goal of the network is to help raise the voices of working people and strengthen organized labor to demand and achieve better treatment from workplaces and elected officials. If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org. Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/ WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/ #LaborRadioPod #1U #UnionStrong
Host Sylvia speaks to Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers regarding the new NAFTA agreement being pushed by the Trump administration. How these agreements subvert democratic rule, weaken worker and environmental rights and how they are related to the mass migration we are seeing form the global south. And how we as citizens need to stop fighting each other and play a role in international solidarity movements.
Host Sylvia speaks to Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers regarding the new NAFTA agreement being pushed by the Trump administration. How these agreements subvert democratic rule, weaken worker and environmental rights and how they are related to the mass migration we are seeing form the global south. And how we as citizens need to stop fighting each other and play a role in international solidarity movements.
Host Sylvia speaks to Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers regarding the new NAFTA agreement being pushed by the Trump administration. How these agreements subvert democratic rule, weaken worker and environmental rights and how they are related to the mass migration we are seeing form the global south. And how we as citizens need to stop fighting each other and play a role in international solidarity movements.
Host Sylvia Richardson interviews Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers, they speak about the historic role of neoliberalism in the dirty wars of Latin America and the current ongoing attempted coup in Venezuela, what is happening currently in Honduras and how the mainstream is supporting that oppressive government. And how in Ontario under conservative rule neoliberalism is threatening health care and education. How we as citizens need to make the connections to fight back, what happens to Venezuela also happens to Canadians and workers worldwide.
Host Sylvia Richardson interviews Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers, they speak about the historic role of neoliberalism in the dirty wars of Latin America and the current ongoing attempted coup in Venezuela, what is happening currently in Honduras and how the mainstream is supporting that oppressive government. And how in Ontario under conservative rule neoliberalism is threatening health care and education. How we as citizens need to make the connections to fight back, what happens to Venezuela also happens to Canadians and workers worldwide.
Host Sylvia speaks to Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers about the ongoing Coup attempts in Venezuela, why Venezuela has been singled out and the role of ordinary citizens in holding their governments like Canada accountable when they endorse these illegal actions in our name. He speaks about the recent elections in Venezuela which had hundreds of electoral observers and how to get more info that is not being properly given by the mainstream media. Its critical to be well informed as our governments are fermenting a situation that could lead to a bloody civil war as 9 Million Venezuelans voted for President Madura only a few months ago.
Host Sylvia speaks to Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers about the ongoing Coup attempts in Venezuela, why Venezuela has been singled out and the role of ordinary citizens in holding their governments like Canada accountable when they endorse these illegal actions in our name. He speaks about the recent elections in Venezuela which had hundreds of electoral observers and how to get more info that is not being properly given by the mainstream media. Its critical to be well informed as our governments are fermenting a situation that could lead to a bloody civil war as 9 Million Venezuelans voted for President Madura only a few months ago.
Today, May 17, a Canadian delegation of people from labour, community and media will be going to Venezuela to observe the May 20 national federal elections and to meet with local community and labour leaders. The mainstream media coverage of events in Venezuela has been historically misleading. Many believe that's because Venezuela has a socialist government that the big global power players object to, especially the United States. If past history is any indication, the elections will be misrepresented to the rest of the world this time too if we only rely on coverage from the big mainstream media. rabble.ca is proud to have been invited to be part of the delegation to Venezuela so we can provide an alternative perspective to the coverage that a lot of the media will be distributing. Humberto DaSilva is a member of CUPE and is also a frequent video contributor to rabble (known to rabble readers, listeners and viewers as “Not Rex”). He's bringing his camera and will be doing video features for us, recording what people are doing and saying about the elections and life in Venezuela. Victoria Fenner, rabble's executive producer of podcasts, had a conversation with Humberto a couple of days ago. He told her that he wanted to go because it's an important global issue about democracy and freedom, and also because he has a personal connection to Venezuela that he wants to explore. The delegation will be gone until May 25, though Humberto will only be there until May 22. We'll be posting a daily stream of articles on rabble from people in the delegation including video reports. WATCH: Raul Burbano of Common Frontiers on Venezuela presidential elections on rabbletv Like this podcast? rabble is reader/listener supported journalism.
“I believe that we should be working with the Venezuelan government to strengthen their democracy, to strengthen the economy and to support the participatory process and move away from the sanctions because historically sanctions have not benefited the people, if anything, they hurt people, the average Venezuelan,” said Raul Burbano of Common Frontiers, an umbrella group of labour and civil society organizations.
Raul Burbano, program director at Common Frontiers, a working group of Canadian labour and civil rights organizations, said Canada’s position on Venezuela is one-sided and misinformed.
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