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On Sunday May 3, a failed attack allegedly aimed to topple the government of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro has led to political embarrassment for opposition leader Juan Guiadó. What does it all mean, especially during a global pandemic? On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Gabriel Hetland, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean & U.S. Latino Studies at the University of Albany to discuss.
Featured image: Security forces guard the shore area and a boat in which authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, May 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Matías Delacroix)
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In the last few months, Puerto Rico's LGBTQ community has experienced a disturbing spike of violent acts, raising serious concerns that the island's current government is not doing enough. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes human rights activist Pedro Julio Serrano to discuss.
Featured image: People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 3, 2018. (RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson —a frequent Fox News guest and Trump favorite who some call the Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Massachusetts— is facing a lawsuit from Boston's Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) regarding immigration detention during the COVID-19 crisis. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks to LCR Executive Director Iván Espinoza-Madrigal about the lawsuit and what comes next.
Featured image via Bristol County Sheriff's Office (Public Domnai)
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Less than 36 hours after Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez announced that the U.S. territory would gradually reopen in the middle of a global coronavirus pandemic, another earthquake struck the island's southern region.
Crisis response in Puerto Rico continues to be a challenge, and questions still remain if the Vázquez administration is even following the advice of scientists and public health officials. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Mónica Feliú-Mójer of CienciaPR to discuss.
Featured Image: A resident wears a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus as he looks at damage caused by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Saturday, May 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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On May 5, Latino Rebels will be a media partner for the Altísimo Live! festival organized by RetroPop Media and iHeartLatino. The concert will benefit farmworkers during this time of the COVID-19 crisis. On this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, Amanda Alcántara interviews Mónica Ramírez of Justice for Migrant Women about the festival and how it will help some of the country's most misunderstood and often forgotten essential workers.
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Even in the middle of global pandemic, there are still moments of joy. Such is the case of the much beloved reboot of ONE DAY AT A TIME, which started its fourth season last month over at Pop TV. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Gloria Calderón Kellett, one of the show's show runners and executive producers. Julio and Gloria talk about the ODAAT love, and we also learn what songs she used to skate to back in the day.
Featured image of the ONE DAY AT A TIME cast via Pop TV
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Internet voting to elect our leaders, especially in the time of COVID-19. Sounds seductive and appealing, right?
Not so fast.
In this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, guests Kevin Scogland (chief technologist at Citizens for Better Elections) and Mayte Bayolo (legislative and public policy attorney for the ACLU of Puerto Rico) explain to host Julio Ricardo Varela why going digital for elections is just not a good idea.
Featured image: Election officials Britt Bermingham, left, and Terry Perry count ballots as City of Milwaukee Election Commission workers were processing absentee ballots on the fourth floor of an office building in Milwaukee on Monday, April 13, 2020.(Mike DeSisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
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On Thursday morning, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela interviewed Erick Delgado, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of Puerto Rico. This week, Delgado and his network have been criticized for not allowing the island's press corps to attend the government's COVID-19 task force sessions.
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Many have praised Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez for establishing a strict curfew early in the COVID-19 crisis, but at what costs? The last few days have been tumultuous for Vázquez and the island's government, as they try to manage the outbreak while being accused of suppressing a free press that can't cover coronavirus task force sessions on Puerto Rico's government-funded television. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela talks to Armando Valdés of Radio Isla's Sobre La Mesa about this and other events that are clouding the Vázquez administration's attempts to fight COVID-19.
Featured image: A scene from Saturday's coronavirus special on WIPR in Puerto Rico. (Via La Fortaleza)
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On Thursday night, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela had a Facebook Live conversation with Mónica Ramírez, a former LR Radio co-host and the founder of Justice for Migrant Women. Julio and Mónica talked about how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting the country's farmworkers—essential workers still facing serious challenges. This podcast episode highlights part of that conversation.
Featured image: Field workers harvest onions in the Imperial Valley, El Centro, California (Carol M. Highsmith via Library of Congress/Public Domain)
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