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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Last Sunday, we spoke about the July 28 shooting death of 44-year-old Joseph “Joey” Santos in Allentown, PA, at the hands of a South Whitehall Township police officer. This past week, officer Jonathan R. Roselle was charged with voluntary manslaughter. We speak with Manuel Gamiz, crime and breaking news writer for Allentown's The Morning Call newspaper.
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On July 28, 44-year-old Joey Santos was killed at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA, after multiple shots from the gun of a South Whitehall Township police officer. Several videos showing the incident were posted on social media, raising questions about how Santos was killed. We speak with Maegan Llerena Muñoz of Make the Road Pennsylvania about Santos' death and why her organization is raising awareness about it.
You can read more about the Santos shooting in The Morning Call.
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On July 23, Karla Estrada wrote a piece on Medium that raised serious allegations against Iván Ceja, executive director and co-founder of UndocuMedia. Karla's very honest and brave words have led to several accountability questions about Ceja and UndocuMedia. We spoke with Karla about what this all means.
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela is a book very much for today.
Mandela has left us a rich treasure of letters that document his 27 years in prison. They speak of the anger, the self-control and his love of country and people that led to such a sacrifice. But above all, it speaks of the human toll that the separation from his family —his children especially— took on such a man. This the ultimate and cruelest expression of state control and power.
Sahm Venter was born in Johannesburg and was not a year old when Mandela was sent to prison. She worked as a journalist more than twenty years, 14 of which was with The Associated Press. Most of her reporting focused on the anti-apartheid struggle and South Africa's long road to democracy. She is currently a Senior Researcher at The Nelson Mandela Foundation.
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We are back from our week-long break, and we wanted to have a more contextual conversation about the nation's current immigration debate Marisa Franco of Mijente breaks it down with us, and no, this conversation won't be as simplistic as what you are hearing on cable news.
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During our week off, our friends at the Latino Media Collective are guest hosting the podcast.
For this episode, the LMC asks: What is it like to be undocumented and LGBTQ? Does the Latino LGBTQ immigrant community receive support from the rest of the mainstream American LGBTQ community? What is the Latino LGBTQ community's interpretation of Pride? The LMC tries to answer these questions when we spend the hour with Dagoberto Bailon and Crystal Zaragoza from Trans Queer Pueblo in Arizona.
For more LMC shows, visit their page here.
Featured image by Sofie Dittmann.
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We wanted to share one more episode from our friends at the Latino Media Collective, who guest host for us while we are off.
Something is missing from the migrant crisis that is separating families: MONEY. There is a lot of money to be made off the misery of immigrants in the US. So the LMC speaks with Karina Moreno about the lucrative, billion-dollar deportation industry and how the profit motive undermines democracy and human rights. Moreno is an assistant professor in the school of business, public administration, and information sciences at Long Island University in Brooklyn.
For more LMC shows, visit their site here.
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We are off this week but don't worry: our friends at the Latino Media Collective are guest hosting!
While the boys have their fun at the World Cup in Russia, the LMC dedicates this episode to the secret history of Mexican women's fútbol and the bright future it has ahead following the success of Liga MX Femenil.
We speak with Joshua Nadel, an associate professor in the History Department at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. It's a story of perseverance in the face of sexism, homophobia, lack of support and institutional discrimination.
For more LMC shows, check out their site.
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On Friday morning, a press call with the same co-counsel who filed the 1985 complaint that led to the original Flores Settlement Agreement have filed another lawsuit for five immigrant children "challenging the government’s cruel policies and practices that unlawfully prolong their detention and delay their reunification with their families."
We recorded the entire press call. Take a listen.
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On Tuesday, Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló was in Aspen, Colorado, for the Aspen Ideas Festival and so was our host Julio Ricardo Varela. In this extra LR Radio segment, Julio asks the governor a few questions about the Hurricane María death toll and whether he supports an independent congressional commission to explore the reasons why the death toll continues to be underreported.
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