Podcasts about gimena sanchez

For the first half of this week's show, Mickey brings on co-organizers and participants of the upcoming 2022 Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival in Washington, DC, including Marcel Reid, Michael McCray, and Marsha Warfiled. They make the case for a broader public understanding of what whistleblowing is, and why those who call out corruption need better protection and support given the retaliation they face for exercising what Daniel Ellsberg, of the Pentagon Papers fame, has called civil courage. In the second half-hour, Eleanor Goldfield and her guest look at the recent election in Colombia, which saw leftist candidate Gustavo Petro winning the presidency and the first Afro-Colombian, Francia Marquez, an environmental activist, win the vice-presidency. They discuss what this may means for the region and US influence and imperialism there. Notes: Michael McCray and Marcel Reid are the co-founders of the International Association of Whistleblowers and co-organizers of the Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival. McCray is also General Counsel for the Federally Employed Women Legal Education Fund. Reid is a former member of the Pacifica Radio National Board. Marsha Warfield is a nationally-known, comedian and actress, and will be hosting some events at the Whistleblower Summit. Gimena Sanchez is a staff member at the Washington Office on Latin America. Image by German Rojas from Pixabay

For the first half of this week's show, Mickey brings on three guests to discuss the upcoming 2022 Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival in Washington, DC (www.whistleblowersummit.com). They also make the case for a broader public understanding of what whistleblowing is, and who is a whistleblower. Then in the second half-hour, Eleanor Goldfield and her guest look at the recent election in Colombia, which saw leftist candidate Gustavo Petro winning the presidency and Afro-Colombian environmental activist Francia Marquez the vice-presidency.   Notes: Michael McCray and Marcel Reid are the co-founders of the International Association of Whistleblowers. McCray is also General Counsel for the Federally Employed Women Legal Education Fund. Reid is a former member of the Pacifica Radio National Board. Marsha Warfield is a nationally-known comedian and actress, and will be hosting some events at the Whistleblower Summit. Gimena Sanchez is a staff member at the Washington Office on Latin America (www.wola.org).

Gustavo Petro, the new leftist president of Colombia, plans to fully implement the 2016 peace accords that ended the decades-long civil war, to drastically reduce the country's 40% poverty rate, and introduce a new national healthcare system. Gimena Sanchez of the Washington Office on Latin America joins Greg Wilpert on theAnalysis.news

In the fourth episode of The Venezuela Briefing, hosts Geoff Ramsey and Kristen Martinez-Gugerli interview WOLA colleague Gimena Sanchez and Dejusticia's Lucia Ramirez to learn more about a recent measure by the Colombian government to provide formal status to Venezuelan migrants living in the country. This permit would offer access to work authorization, formal employment, and health care services for as many as 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants for a period of 10 years. Colombia, which hosts the largest number of Venezuelan migrants and refugees out of any other country in Latin America, announced the decree on February 8. While this is the broadest measure to date to address the Venezuelan displacement crisis, there is far more to be done to protect Venezuelan migrants in need.

The war machine marches on towards toppling the democratically elected President Maduro of Venezuela. Meanwhile, the US empire isn't acting alone. Colombia is throwing in its lot with Uncle Sam to the continued detriment of both Venezuelans and Colombians. Nelly Velandia and Luisa Fernanda Gonzalez of Cumbre Nacional de Mujeres y Paz join us along with Gimena Sanchez of WOLA to discuss the ongoing human rights violations in Colombia. Focusing on war crimes against women, they explain the situation on the ground and the direct connections between their government, the United States and corporate malfeasance.   https://www.wola.org/ http://cumbrenacionaldemujeresypaz.com

Tonight, Sun., 12/23/18 meet Gimena Sanchez, Director for the Andes at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), an independent organization that advocates for human rights in the Americas.:Also, we have Ofunshi Oba Kosso, Director of the Minnesota Yoruba Cuba Association and CEO of ApiRED. Mr. Kosso is an Afro-Cuban shaman, Ifa priest, advocate and Crystal Yuille, also with WOLA he recently co-wrote the article "The UN Decade on Afrodescendants Depends on Us". Today's theme will be:'Colombia, Brazil, Dominican Republic & Cuba: Africans & Indigenous'  Struggles'  

According to Joseph Jordan in his article, Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan African Analysis, the early history of Africans in Colombia begins with the Spanish conquest and settlement of various areas in the early 1500s. The importation of Africans as an enslaved people, provided labor for this Spanish conquest and remained a vital component of Colombia's history until it was abolished in 1851. The formation of an Afro-Colombian identity built upon a tradition of resistance can linked to a continuous history of rebellions and the existence of independent maroon communities called palenque. According to Wade in The Cultural Politics of Blackness in Colombia, as in many other Latin American countries, in post-independence Colombia prior to the late twentieth century, the category negro had no institutional space in state practices governed by liberal ideologies of citizenship, which gave little room to ethnic difference among citizens. Indigenous people were, however, recognized as a specific category. Academics also did not pay attention to black as a category: anthropology focused on indigenous peoples; sociology attended to peasants and social classes; history, while it looked at “slaves”, did not encompass ‘Blacks' (Friedemann 1984). Yet the category negro existed in everyday practice to refer to categories of people. The geographer Agustín Codazzi referred in the 1850s to la raza negra that lived in the Pacific coastal region of the country, populated mainly by descendants of African slaves. The novelist Tomás Carrasquilla (1858-1940) included references to negros in his works (Wade 1993). In the mid-twentieth century, there was extensive press commentary about the music and danceassociated with los negros, which were becoming popular (Wade 2000). The term was not well defined, however. On the one hand, it could be very encompassing, as a term used by the elites to refer to the lower classes in general; on the other hand, it could be quite restrictive, as an insult directed against a particular person. Euphemisms such as moreno (brown) were common and in areas identified by observers as very black, such as the Pacific coastal region, locals referred to themselves as libres (free people) rather than negros (Losonczy 1997). Afro-Colombian communities and collective territories are mostly concentrated in the resource rich and geopolitically strategic regions of the country that continue to be the scenes of fierce disputes between armed groups. Along the Pacific coast the fight for the control and exploitation of collective lands by armed actors has meant that such communities have found themselves caught up in the cross fire or continuously on the front line of the conflict. Recently the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) hosted a discussion exploring the interdependence and complexities in the recent elections, the peace accord and AfroColombian communities. Anthony Dest, a PHD candidate at the university of Texas at Austin, who served as an election monitor during Colombia's June 17th presidential run-off election dissected what the elections mean for Afrodescendants and Indigenous Communities on the Pacifica Coast. This session was moderated by Gimena Sanchez, who is Senior Associate for the Andes at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), where she is the leading Colombia human rights advocate.

Episode 39: The economic and political system kills people, in big numbers and, sometimes, one at a time. This week, Jonathan looks at the killing, big and small, with his guests. In Colombia, a union leader is murdered, and we discuss with Gimena Sanchez how his death is a microcosm of bad trade deals. We also look at the massive Pentagon budget increase Trump is proposing but, optimistically, a small city mayor, Ithaca's Svante Myrick, has rallied mayors nationally to oppose feeding the big killing machine. Our Robber Baron of the week is Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens who, incredibly, wants to impoverish thousands of people by cutting the St. Louis newly-enacted minimum wage from $10-an-hour to $7.70

Venezuela, Colombia, and their simmering problems provide the central themes on Latin Pulse this week. The program includes an in-depth analysis reviewing the state of democracy in Venezuela and how that affects the current crisis situation.  The program also discusses how minority groups (Afro-Colombians and indigenous tribes) have been marginalized as part of the negotiations to end the country's long-running civil war. The news segment of the program covers the inauguration of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski as both Peru's newest and oldest president, along with noting his support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (the TPP).The program includes in-depth interviews with:Dan Hellinger of Webster University; andGimena Sanchez of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; Technical Director: Jim Singer; and Production Assistant: Chorsie Martin. (To download or stream this podcast, click here.)   (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.) podcastnewsLatin AmericapoliticsPeruTPPtradeVenezuelaColombiaBarack Obamapeace talksPedro Pablo KuczynskiAfro-Latin American issuesdiplomacyUNfood shortagesfood riotscivil warrecall movementprotest movementcorruptionprotest movementmilitaryUnited StatesNicolas MadurounionsCubaHenrique CaprilesHugo Chavezmediaoilextractive industriesenvironmental issuesindigenous issuesFARCAfro-ColombiansDrug Warminority issuesland reformland minesparamilitariesdemocracymininggoldcorruptionatrocitieshealth issuesmassacresWayuu

An hour-long special covers various issues regarding human rights and democratization on Latin Pulse this week. The program includes a wide-ranging discussion of the various crises affecting Venezuela, including the political and economic situations.  The analysis also includes discussions on the peace process in Colombia and accusations of human rights abuses by the military in Honduras.  The program also includes a review of a book on corruption in Brazil. The news segment of the program covers how El Salvador's Supreme Court struck down the country's amnesty law opening the door to human rights prosecutions linked to the country's civil war.The program includes in-depth interviews with:Dan Hellinger of Webster University; Orlando Perez of Millersville University;Gimena Sanchez of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA); and Alex Cuadros, author of Brazillionaires. Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; Technical Director: Jim Singer; and Production Assistant: Chorsie Martin. (To download or stream this podcast, click here.)   (The program is 60 minutes in length and the file size is 83 MB.) podcastnewsLatin AmericapoliticsBrazilatrocitiesmassacresviolencecrimehuman rightsEl SalvadorLuiz Inacio Lula da SilvaOrganization of American StatesJuan Orlando HernandezJuan Manuel SantosCarlos Andres PerezmilitaryUNBerta CaceresDilma RousseffU.S. Congresscorruptionprotest movementColombiaPetrobrasSpainJesuitsassassinationseconomicsOASCELACmediaimpeachmentfood shortagesfood riotsrecall movementpolitical repressionHondurasmediaoilUNASURcoupdemocracyauthoritarianismpolicehomicideELNparamilitariesFARCcocaineinfrastructuretortureNicolas MaduroHugo ChavezLuis AlmagroUnited NationsManuel ZelayaDrug Warpeace processUnited StatesWorkers PartyMexico

Latin Pulse registers its 200th episode this week, so the program looks back at the audience's favorite programs since the program became an online radio project.  Themes included in the program include migration, the Drug War, the civil war in Colombia, indigenous issues, and the construction of the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil. The program also includes a discussion of religion, including Santeria and about the folk saint Santa Muerte.  The news segment of the program analyzes the surprise diplomatic move this week by President Mauricio Macri in Argentina to reach out to the United Kingdom.The program includes interviews with:Maureen Meyer of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA);Gimena Sanchez of WOLA;Eve Bratman of American University;Michael Atwood Mason, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage; andAndrew Chesnut of Virginia Commonwealth University.Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; Technical Director: Jim Singer; andAssociate Producer: Natalie Ottinger.(To download or stream this podcast, click here.)   (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.) podcastnewsLatin AmericaBrazilpoliticsMexicoArgentinaCubadiplomacyimmigrationUnited StatesDrug WarFalkland IslandsviolenceU.S. Border PatrolAfro-Latin American issuesBelo Monte DamLos MalvinasUnited KingdomDavid CameronMauricio Macridrug cartelsindigenous issuesmilitaryColombiaFARCreligioncocaineaerial fumigationThe AmazonmediamediaSanteriaSanta Muertehealth issuesindigenous religionnarco-religion

Gimena Sanchez talks about the Colombia FTA and labor rights violations.