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 host Julio Ricardo Varela was out in Aspen, Colorado, this week but he managed to connect with immigration lawyer Hassan Ahmad and discuss the latest Supreme Court ruling, the thinking behind family separation and will the Abolish ICE movement become a national campaign issue in 2018 now that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent Joe Crowley in a New York City Democratic primary.
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Every four years, we kind of stop everything we are doing to watch the World Cup, and for some reason, this year's tournament already feels special, especially with Mexico winning Sunday against Germany. We talk World Cup with Ray Collazo of RaysPodcast.com about what we can't ever get enough of this global event.
Featured image of FIFA World Cup 2018 opening ceremony via Kremlin.ru
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With news of a Harvard School of Public Health study estimating that there were close to 5,000 excess deaths in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María, we wanted to talk with Alexis Santos Lozada, a Penn State assistant professor who was one of the first researchers to explore the death count last year, months before the Harvard study.
What are the bigger questions and what are we missing about this story?
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Our friends at the Latino Media Collective are back guest hosting this week's Latino Rebels Radio.
Why does it seem that Paraguay is so isolated to the rest of Latin America? The answer may lie in a genocidal war that almost destroyed the country and the Guaraní language that united it during reconstruction.
The LMC speaks with Paraguayan writer Benjamín Fernández Bogado to learn more about the extraordinary Guaraní language. Fernández Bogado is also the program director for Radio Libre and a columnist for 5 días.
For more LMC shows, visit their site here.
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We did a quick recording with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Wednesday morning to talk about the new Harvard study which said that the death count in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane María is more than 70 times the official government number of 64 deaths, which would result in a death count of over 4,600 lives.
This is a special unedited version of Latino Rebels Radio.
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The political crisis continues in Nicaragua, and Latino Rebels Radio talks with Rita Delia Casco, former Ambassador of Nicaragua to the United States, former Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the Organization of American States (OAS) and former Ambassador of Nicaragua to Mexico.
Ambassador Casco was also a member of the Nicaraguan delegation that negotiated the Central American peace agreements of the 1980s.
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The Latino Media Collective continues guest hosting Latino Rebels Radio with this show from earlier this spring.
Is there life after deportation in Guatemala? Willy Barreno, the co-founder of DESGUA, says yes. He speaks with the LMC about his organization—forming job opportunities for the Mayan community, alternatives to migrating north, creating hope for recently deported Guatemalans, and building the Guatemalan dream. A very inspiring episode. Check out Willy's work at desgua.org.
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Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over the Latino Rebels Radio host chair this week with a story about the construction of the Panama Canal, built for the benefit of U.S. imperialism, under the dark cloud of Jim-Crow racism, with little regard to worker's rights, and almost no recourse for disability rights. This is the dark story of the forgotten victims of the Panama Canal. The LMC speaks with Caroline Lieffers, a PhD candidate in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University.
For more about the LMC, visit their site here.
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On the weekend of our seventh birthday, Latino Rebels founder @julito77 shares his thoughts about the past, present and future of LR.
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One week before Cinco De Mayo falls on a Saturday, we look at the latest #CincoDeFallo fails of 2018 with @GregorioEats, the Oracle of Cinco De Fallo.
For more about #CincoDeFallo, just go here.
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