Podcasts about futuro investigates

This week In The Thick shares an episode of Latino USA.The 2024 presidential election has seen a rise in Spanish-language misinformation and in the content creators making a living by pushing out false content. For months, Futuro Investigates in collaboration with Latino USA, tracked how lies and conspiracies about the election and the candidates that originated in English soon found their way to Spanish-speaking audiences, amid the expanded monetization of tech platforms and the rise of technologies like AI. We meet face to face with social media influencers pushing out misinformation in Spanish, and with the experts combating it.This story is part of our ongoing election coverage “The Latino Factor: How We Vote.”Follow us on TikTok and Instagram.  Subscribe to our newsletter by going to the top of our homepage. 

The 2024 presidential election has seen a rise in Spanish-language misinformation and in the content creators making a living by pushing out false content. For months, Futuro Investigates in collaboration with Latino USA, tracked how lies and conspiracies about the election and the candidates that originated in English soon found their way to Spanish-speaking audiences, amid the expanded monetization of tech platforms and the rise of technologies like AI. We meet face to face with social media influencers pushing out misinformation in Spanish, and with the experts combating it.Follow us on TikTok and YouTube. Subscribe to our newsletter by going to the top of our homepage. 

This week, Latino USA shares the conclusion of Futuro Investigates podcast series USA v. García Luna. The day finally arrived. Genaro García Luna, one of Mexico's former most powerful government officials, has been sentenced to serve more than 38 years in prison by a court in New York. In the last episode of our series, Maria Hinojosa and Peniley Ramírez tell us what happened inside the courthouse and also reveal to us that this isn't the end of the judicial problems for García Luna in the United States, as he faces other cases in the country.

The Mortgage Wall is a special episode by Futuro Investigates in collaboration with Latino USA. As housing has become one of the top five concerns for Latino voters for the first time ever this election cycle, we dive into the disparities that make it harder for Latinos and Latinas to overcome mortgage lending barriers and achieve homeownership.You can read more about the episode here. Subscribe to our newsletter by going to the top of our homepage. 

It's Thursday, which means it's time for the week in politics. Stephanie Grace, the Times Picayune/The Advocate's editorial director and columnist, talks about House Speaker Mike Johnson's decision to back more military aid to Ukraine. That decision rattled several House Republicans this week. They've since called for his removal.  Johnson also visited Columbia University in New York City this week to meet with Jewish students and leaders as anti-war protests there continue — and spread to other U.S. college campuses.  State leaders decided again this year not to give teachers a permanent pay raise, opting for a one-time stipend instead. Many agree that educators are underpaid, but they point to Louisiana's looming deficit as a reason to delay. As costs rise and wages stagnate, Aubri Juhasz, WWNO/WRKF education reporter, spoke with teachers who are struggling to stay in the profession. When disasters like hurricanes, floods and wildfires strike, an army of recovery workers usually descend on the affected area. They remove the debris, and typically move from one disaster to the next.  Some workers are lured by higher than minimum wage pay, overtime and provided transportation. But an investigation by Futuro Investigates, The Center for Public Integrity, and Columbia Journalism Investigations found workers, who are largely Latino, face significant health risks. Maria Ines Zamudio, with the Center for Public Integrity, is lead reporter on the podcast, Toxic Labor, from Latino USA, and joins the show. _____ Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Bob Pavlovich. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber; our contributing producers are Matt Bloom and Adam Vos; we receive production and technical support from Garrett Pittman and our assistant producer, Aubry Procell. You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:00 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a special episode by Futuro Investigates, in collaboration with The Center For Public Integrity and Columbia Journalism Investigations. In the absence of federal or state data showing how many disaster restoration workers get sick every year because of their labor, we document for the first time how prolonged exposure to dangerous toxins affects the health of workers who clean and rebuild American cities after natural disasters. 

How is ICE handling complaints of sexual abuse from detainees? Maria Hinojosa teams up with Zeba Warsi, two immigrant women and journalists from different generations, to look at sexual abuse in ICE detention more than a decade after Maria's documentary film on this topic. This time, they investigate how women in ICE detention are sexually abused when they were at their most vulnerable —in a medical setting— and how ICE has done very little to stop it. A special by Futuro Investigates in collaboration with Latino USA.

A new investigation by the Pulitzer Prize-winning organization Futuro Investigates and Latino USA shines a light on allegations of sexual abuse and assaults filed by migrants in U.S. immigration detention facilities. Geoff Bennett discussed more with NewsHour producer Zeba Warsi, who teamed up with Futuro Investigates and has been reporting on this story since 2021. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In the year following the shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two adults, how has the community in Uvalde, Texas grieved — and what do they want to see happen? In the recent documentary After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa examined the Uvalde community's efforts to heal, its history of activism, and where the fight over assault rifles stands today. Hinojosa, host of Latino USA and founder of Futuro Media, joins Raney Aronson-Rath to talk about her reporting in Uvalde and at the Texas Capitol as the aftermath of the tragedy — including the efforts of some Robb Elementary families to advocate for new gun restrictions — rippled through Texas politics. “It's just like you are witnessing the greatest divisions in our country right here. This is what it looks like,” Hinojosa told Aronson-Rath. You can watch After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics, a collaboration with Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune, on FRONTLINE's website, FRONTLINE's YouTube channel, and the PBS App. Want to be notified every time a new podcast episode drops?Sign up for The FRONTLINE Dispatch newsletter.

A year after the Uvalde school shooting, FRONTLINE, Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune document the community's trauma and the fight over assault rifles. Journalist Maria Hinojosa examines the police response, Uvalde's history of struggle and its efforts to heal.

One year after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Latino USA and Futuro Investigates explore how families in the community are dealing with grief, how they're navigating their journey to healing, and calling for accountability. “Uvalde Rising,” tells the story of how victims' parents and survivors are fighting for gun reform and calling for more mental health resources. Some of the reporting for this episode is based on the PBS Frontline documentary film “After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics."

Maria Hinojosa, founder of Futuro Media and president of Futuro Investigates, anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and the author of the Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America (Simon and Schuster, 2020), examines the tragedy at Robb Elementary School and where we go from here in a new documentary from FRONTLINE, Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune. → AFTER UVALDE Guns, Grief & Texas Politics | FRONTLINE You can listen to a special episode of Latino USA partly based on the reporting for the documentary film on Friday, June 2, at 9 p.m. on 93.9FM and Saturday, June 3, at 8 p.m. AM820

Last May, a gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Uvalde, TX. A year later, we look at how the community has changed, and how the nation's thinking on gun control has evolved.  On Today's Show:Maria Hinojosa, founder of Futuro Media and president of Futuro Investigates, anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and the author of the Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America (Simon and Schuster, 2020), examines the tragedy at Robb Elementary School and where we go from here.

Maria and Julio reflect on the one-year anniversary of the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas and the lasting impacts on the community. We go deeper in our roundtable to look at how families of victims– especially mothers, both past and present, bring about change. Maria leads the discussion with Keith Beauchamp, award-winning filmmaker and producer on the film “Till,” and Monica Muñoz Martinez, historian and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. ITT Staff Picks: A new FRONTLINE documentary with Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune seeks to answer the lingering questions after the tragedy. You can watch the trailer here. “Parents have been fighting for a full accounting, but a promised city investigation hasn't happened and a lot of information is bottled up in the district attorney's own investigation,” writes Suzanne Gamboa about the families fighting for justice in Uvalde one year later, in this piece for NBC News. Following the Uvalde school massacre last year, Loyola Professor Elliott Gorn wrote “Publishing grim photographs of mass killings might do some good in reforming America's insane gun regime. But it won't be because gun rights fundamentalists see the light,” for The Chicago Sun-Times. Photo credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay, File

The new investigative podcast series “Head Down'' explores labor trafficking happening within the U.S. government sponsored H2A visa program. It is sold as a “mutually beneficial” immigration program that allows migrant workers to come to the U.S. as temporary agricultural workers, but a closer look into the program reveals a great disparity between how the program is described and what actually happens.  A recent investigation by Prism, LatinoUSA, and Futuro Investigates found that this program is rife with exploitation and abuse. The two-part podcast follows the journey of Mexican farmworkers who soon after arriving in North Carolina with H-2A visas found themselves in a nightmare they were forced to escape. We speak with one of the podcast cohosts, editor-at-large of Prism, Tina Vasquez. And while we're on the topic of North Carolina, we also speak with Tina about the state's recent move to ban abortion after 12 weeks. Listen to "Head Down": Head Down: Part I Head Down: Part II  

The new investigative podcast series “Head Down'' explores labor trafficking happening within the U.S. government sponsored H2A visa program. It is sold as a “mutually beneficial” immigration program that allows migrant workers to come to the U.S. as temporary agricultural workers, but a closer look into the program reveals a great disparity between how the program is described and what actually happens.  A recent investigation by Prism, LatinoUSA, and Futuro Investigates found that this program is rife with exploitation and abuse. The two-part podcast follows the journey of Mexican farmworkers who soon after arriving in North Carolina with H-2A visas found themselves in a nightmare they were forced to escape. We speak with one of the podcast cohosts, editor-at-large of Prism, Tina Vasquez. And while we're on the topic of North Carolina, we also speak with Tina about the state's recent move to ban abortion after 12 weeks. Listen to "Head Down": Head Down: Part I Head Down: Part II  

This week Latino USA shares an episode of the USA v. García Luna podcast, from Futuro Investigates and Lemonada Media. Genaro García Luna's trial is over, but Maria and Peniley's investigative work is not. In this episode, they learn that a U.S. senator has requested the DEA and the FBI information on García Luna, including the names of the U.S. officials who vetted him. We listen to some of our series' protagonists react to the guilty verdict, and Peniley digs into what's next for García Luna. Finally, our hosts reflect on why the war on drugs was always unwinnable, and they get into some chisme, going behind the scenes of this series. To hear more of USA v. García Luna, head to futuroinvestigates.org.

After 10 years of investigating Genaro García Luna, Peniley is now on the ground in Brooklyn with Maria, reporting on his trial. He is accused of working a second, dirty job for the Sinaloa Cartel, besides his role as a top officer for the Mexican government. Each morning, Futuro Investigates heads to the courthouse to see the once “untouchable” cop face the 12 jurors who will decide his fate. In this episode, we meet the jury members, the cartel witnesses, the protestors, and prosecutors arguing the former Mexican hero is now starring in a story of betrayal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Después de 10 años de investigar a Genaro García Luna, Peniley está ahora en Brooklyn con María, informando sobre su juicio. García Luna está acusado de tener un segundo trabajo, uno sucio, para el Cártel de Sinaloa, mientras era un oficial de alto rango en el gobierno mexicano. Futuro Investigates va a la corte cada mañana para ver al otrora “intocable” jefe de policía enfrentarse a los 12 jurados que decidirán su destino. En este episodio, conocemos a los miembros del jurado, los testigos del cartel, los manifestantes y el equipo legal que argumenta que el ex héroe mexicano ahora protagoniza una historia de traiciones.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What better way to ring in the first Mental Pleasure episode, than with a riveting conversation with reporter, Julieta Martinelli ?Julieta or known as “Juju”, is an award-winning, investigative reporter and currently the Senior Producer at Futuro Media. She writes about humanity and particularly the way human rights intersect with the criminal legal system and immigration - specifically, for Latino USA, Futuro Studios and Futuro Investigates. Last year, Juju wrote and co-produced Suave, a narrative podcast series about juvenile life without parole. Suave was recognized by the International Documentary Association as 2021's best audio documentary series. Just last year, 2022, her work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting. Juju's writing and reporting has helped lead to the release of two incarcerated men in two separate cases, one of which had spent nearly two decades wrongfully convicted, in prison. Over the years her work has taken her all over the world. She has spent many months alone in big and small border towns, in Mexico, documenting the stories of asylum seekers who are forced to live in dangerous conditions. She has visited overcrowded shelters, prisons and detention centers across the South – to be more specific, in the jungle at the Darien Gap, which straddles between Colombia and Panama, all the way to the soccer fields of Argentina; to begin to understand how something as simple as the game of soccer, helps shape the sense of belonging and identity for those living in such communities.  As you can already see, Juju is far from simple and those who know her would describe her as “simply, THE best.” She definitely is a force to be reckoned with and you'll just have to listen to see for yourself. Happy listening! Julieta's Work:http://julietamartinelli.com/ (http://julietamartinelli.com/)Latino USA, Futuro Studios and Futuro Investigates.Instagram:@jujuxwrites

Futuro Investigates and Latino USA—in partnership with Lemonada Media—present “USA v. García Luna,” a story where true crime meets telenovela. In this new investigative series, we'll focus on Genaro García Luna: the most powerful Mexican official to ever face trial in the U.S. for allegedly accepting million-dollar bribes from the Sinaloan drug cartel. Maybe you've never heard of him, but in five episodes, Pulitzer Prize winner Maria Hinojosa and Emmy Award winner Peniley Ramírez will tell you why he matters, and how his story connects the U.S. government, the war on drugs, and millions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers. In episode one, “Untouchable,” Peniley dives into the latest with her new friend and co-host Maria. Over a bottle of tequila, they raise questions about what García Luna's upcoming trial says about the role of the U.S. in the “war on drugs.” To hear more of USA v. Garcia Luna, head to Futuroinvestigates.org

Futuro Investigates and Latino USA —in partnership with Lemonada Media— present “USA v. García Luna,” a new investigative series about the most powerful Mexican official to ever face trial in the U.S. for allegedly accepting million-dollar bribes from the Sinaloan drug cartel. Before his arrest, Genaro García Luna worked closely with U.S. diplomats and intelligence agencies, and was considered the architect of the Mexican "war on drugs," funded with more than $3 billion of U.S. taxpayer money. Look for it on December 9th wherever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org. You can subscribe to “USA v. García Luna” here.

Futuro Investigates and Latino USA —in partnership with Lemonada Media— present “USA v. García Luna,” a new investigative series about the most powerful Mexican official to ever face trial in the U.S. for allegedly accepting million-dollar bribes from the Sinaloan drug cartel. Before his arrest, Genaro García Luna worked closely with U.S. diplomats and intelligence agencies, and was considered the architect of the Mexican "war on drugs," funded with more than $3 billion of U.S. taxpayer money. Look for it on December 9th wherever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org. You can subscribe to “USA v. García Luna” here.

Futuro Investigates and Latino USA —in partnership with Lemonada Media— present “USA v. García Luna,” a new investigative series about the most powerful Mexican official to ever face trial in the U.S. for allegedly accepting million-dollar bribes from the Sinaloan drug cartel. Before his arrest, Genaro García Luna worked closely with U.S. diplomats and intelligence agencies, and was considered the architect of the Mexican "war on drugs," funded with more than $3 billion of U.S. taxpayer money. Look for it on December 9th wherever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org. You can subscribe to “USA v. García Luna” here.

Futuro Investigates and Latino USA —in partnership with Lemonada Media— present “USA v. García Luna,” a new investigative series about the most powerful Mexican official to ever face trial in the U.S. for allegedly accepting million-dollar bribes from the Sinaloan drug cartel. Before his arrest, Genaro García Luna worked closely with U.S. diplomats and intelligence agencies, and was considered the architect of the Mexican "war on drugs," funded with more than $3 billion of U.S. taxpayer money. Look for it on December 9th wherever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org. You can subscribe to “USA v. García Luna” here.

In this year-long investigation from Futuro Investigates, we dig into how the Border Patrol's decades-long deterrence policies create a deadly funnel, pushing migrants to cross through the Sonora Desert in southern Arizona—one of the deadliest terrains in the country. More than 4,000 remains have been recovered, and many have disappeared here. While the actual death toll is unknown, experts say it is likely much higher. As a result, volunteer organizations go to the most dangerous areas to search for missing people. We question why volunteers have to take on this work, and how this crisis fuels the Border Patrol's budget.

Maria and Julio unpack the latest with Congress, including the Senate vote against paid sick leave for railway workers. They also discuss the Respect for Marriage Act, which would require that all same-sex and interracial marriages be protected at the federal level. Finally, they get into immigration policy and New York City Mayor Eric Adams' new plan to allow involuntary hospitalization of people with presumed mental health issues. ITT Staff Picks: Zach Schonfeld discusses the 12 Senate Republicans who voted in favor of the same-sex marriage bill in this article for The Hill. Maria Hinojosa, Roxanne Scott and Julieta Martinelli unpack the “deadly funnel” that the U.S. government has created at the Border Patrol in this year-long investigation from Futuro Investigates on Latino USA. “A day after Mayor Eric Adams announced an aggressive plan to involuntarily hospitalize people deemed too ill to care for themselves, experts in mental illness, homelessness and policing expressed skepticism that the plan could effectively solve a crisis that has confounded city leaders for decades,” write Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Andy Newman in this article for The New York Times. Photo credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File

On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Futuro Media senior producers Julieta Martinelli and Roxanne Scott to discuss the debut Futuro Investigates story about the dangers migrants face in the Arizona desert. “Death by Policy: Crisis in the Arizona Desert” premieres December 2 on Latino USA.

Futuro Investigates and Latino USA —in partnership with Lemonada Media— present “USA v. García Luna,” a new investigative series about the most powerful Mexican official to ever face trial in the U.S. for allegedly accepting million-dollar bribes from the Sinaloan drug cartel. Before his arrest, Genaro García Luna worked closely with U.S. diplomats and intelligence agencies, and was considered the architect of the Mexican "war on drugs," funded with more than $3 billion of U.S. taxpayer money. Look for it on December 9th wherever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.