Stay ConnectedCommentary, news and analysis of the U.S. Latino world. Engaging traviesos. A 2019 iHeart Radio Podcast Awards nominee for Best Multicultural Podcast hosted by award-wining journalist Julio Ricardo Varela.
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Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio this week with several podcasts. For the first show, the LMC revisits the story of the struggle for independence in Western Sahara, one of only two regions in Africa where Spanish is spoken. We speak with Sahra Libre (alias) about the continued fight against Moroccan occupation, which has lasted for over 43 years. Sahra Libre is a Sahrawi refugee and activist living in the United States. She conducted this interview in an undisclosed location in Morocco in order to circumvent the media blockade.
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On Wednesday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the end of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for people from Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua and El Salvador. What does this all mean and how will the Trump administration respond? Latino Rebels Radio shares the latest media call with some of the attorneys and plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit that led to the judge's decision.
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Joe Gomez used to be the press person for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigrant organization labeled a hate group by the SPLC. After nine months at FAIR, Gomez quit his job because of the racism he experienced. He explains why he worked at FAIR and why he left.
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One year after Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico last September, we revisit our conversation with noted Puerto Rican political commentator Jay Fonseca about what is missing in the coverage during the one-year anniversary.
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As the one-year anniversary of Hurricane María nears, the victims of the worst storm in the history of modern Puerto Rico have become political fodder for President Trump. Host Julio Ricardo Varela retracks the origins of how we get here and also speaks to one of the researchers from the Milken Institute School of Public Health about its recent study about the hurricane's death toll.
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The Latino Media Collective continues its guest hosting with another new show.
In this episode, the LMC speaks with Sabrina Fernandes about the struggle for reproductive rights in Brazil. as the religious right continues its plan to eliminate Brazil's limited abortion laws. Fernandes is a PhD in Sociology from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is also the host of the YouTube channel Tese Onze.
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The Latino Media Collective continues its guest hosting slot this week with another episode.
Thirty-eight years after his assassination, Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero is being canonized for sainthood. The LMC speaks with Michael E. Lee about the significance of this event for El Salvador and Liberation Theology. Lee is an associate professor of Theology and Latin American Studies at Fordham University. He is also the author of "Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Oscar Romero."
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Latino Rebels Radio is on vacation but we are thrilled to share an episode from our friends at the Latino Media Collective.
Puerto Rico was not the only country hit hard by last year's hurricane season. The LMC speaks with Dr Matthew Quest about the struggle for social and environmental justice in Antigua and Barbuda. Dr, Quest is a lecturer of Africana Studies at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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A couple of weeks ago, Latino Rebels had a Facebook Live conversation with Grammy winner Ileana Cabra Joglar, also known as iLe. So we decided to share the audio version of the video convo, talking about her latest "Odio" single, Puerto Rican history and how the island is coping since Hurricane María.
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Earlier in August, a bill to legalize abortion lost in Argentina's senate, but for Argentine Giselle Carino, the CEO of International Planned Parenthood’s Western Hemisphere region, the bill's defeat means optimism for reproductive rights in Latin America and Caribbean. In this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, we talk with Carino.
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