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In this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, we speak with Paula Ávila-Guillén about the fight to legalize abortion in several Latin American countries and the work that The Women’s Equality Center is doing, gearing up for legislative pushes around abortions rights.
Ávila-Guillén is a Human Rights Legal Expert and Director of Latin America Initiatives for the Women’s Equality Center, an advocacy organization that works with activists and groups across the continent.
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As you all may know by now, Latino Rebels is part of Futuro Media, the nonprofit independent media company founded by award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Well, we have good news: Maria makes her Latino Rebels Radio guest debut. She talks about her recent trip on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Jussie Smollett case, and the West Virginia Mexican restaurant viral video.
And don't worry, we will have Maria back on soon.
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A February 21 lawsuit filed by National Immigration Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the law firm of Sherrard, Roe, Voigt & Harbison alleges that "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained approximately 100 Latino workers, violating their rights against illegal seizures and to equal protection under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution," according to a media release.
Here is a recording of the press call about the lawsuit.
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On Monday morning, we gave Sergio Budar a call about the viral video that shows a woman telling him to "get the f•ck out of my country." The video was taken over the weekend at the Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Sergio is the general manager there as well as at the Tampico location in Marietta, Ohio. He tells about what happened in the video and why he decided to act the way he did.
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Is ICE ramping up its enforcement tactics in North Carolina? For the past two weeks, it appears so, according to immigrant rights activists who have been tracking recent events. We talk with Tina Vazquez, senior reporter on Immigration for Rewire.News about the latest.
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On the eve of a national mobilization in Washington, D.C., Honduran and Nepali Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, as well as representatives from unions, national immigrant rights organizations, and legal groups, held a press conference announcing a major legal development in the fight to save TPS.
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Last week, the City of Nogales unanimously voted to condemn the concertina wire installed by the federal government on the fence between that divides the Arizona border city from its sister city in Sonora, Mexico. We talk with nogalense journalist Joe Wright about why the city is speaking out and what it means to Ambos Nogales.
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In this special Latino Rebels Radio episode, we feature the latest from Sergio Muñoz's INTELATIN show: a conversation with Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the filmmakers behind "Pájaros de verano" (Birds of Passage), which opened at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The film also opened in the U.S. at the Telluride Film Festival and in Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival. A limited run starts in New York on February 13 and in Los Angeles on February 15.
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A few weeks ago, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela was a guest of Hector Luis Alamo's new podcast, REMEMBER THE SHOW! Hector was once deputy editor for Latino Rebels, so he asked Julio about LR's history and where it will go next.
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It is perhaps the most important story of the Western Hemisphere right now: the political crisis in Venezuela. We talk with Venezuelan journalist Eli López about what is happening. López is the International Opinions Editor at the Washington Post.
A special thank you to Miguel Macías of Futuro Media for his help on this recording.
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