Latino Rebels Radio

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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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)  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is just right over the bridge from the city of Boston, but it (sadly) might as well be invisible in the eyes of many Bostonians and Massachusetts residents. It is the city of Chelsea, and according to several reports, it is has become the state's COVID-19 epicenter. A city this is close to 70% Latino, Chelsea is home to a significant Latin American immigrant population. The crisis has hit the city hard, with rates of positive coronavirus cases per 10,000 people similar to those of New York City. For this special episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks to Chelsea City Councilor Judith Garcia about what is happening in Chelsea and why. Featured image: The Beacon St exit on the Tobin Bridge heading north towards Chelsea, MA. (Photo by formulanone/CC BY-SA 2.0) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A lot is happening in New York during the COVID-19 crisis, and one overlooked issue? Discrimination. In this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Angela Fernandez, Commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights. Featured image by U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Amouris Coss/Public Domain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recently, Latino Rebels and Latino USA began publishing the weekly Vanguardia America newsletter, created and curated by Phoenix-based journalist James Garcia. In this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks to Garcia about the newsletter and also how the COVID-19 crisis is playing out in Arizona. Featured image: Arizona's Camelback Mountain (Photo by Adrienne Lahr/CC BY 2.0) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the last week, immigrant detainees and immigration attorneys have been speaking out about detention conditions during the COVID-19 crisis. Most of these detention centers are run by private prison companies that get contracted by ICE. Besides reports of hunger strikes with male detainees in both Louisiana and Georgia, The Intercept reported about women detainees in the South Louisiana Processing Center protesting conditions. For this Latino Rebels Radio episode, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes immigration attorney Mariel Villarreal via phone to discuss what she is seeing in Bay Area detention centers and also what her client told Villarreal last week about an incident at the LaSalle Detention Facility in Jena, LA, which was first reported on March 26 by Mother Jones. Featured image: Screen grab from a video of immigrant women detainees at the LaSalle Detention Facility in Jena, LA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Andrea Nill Sánchez, Executive Director of the AI Now Institute at New York University, to talk about how artificial intelligence is being used (and misused) in immigration enforcement. Featured imaged via the Department of Homeland Security (Public Domain) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Thursday, Latino Rebels published a story from the Southeast Immigrant Rights Network about how immigrant detainees at Richwood Detention Center in Louisiana have gone on hunger strike to protest conditions during the COVID-19 crisis. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Lorena Quiroz, a Mississippi immigrant rights organizer to talk about the #FreeThemAll movement. Featured image: Richwood Correctional Center (Public Domain)TRANSCRIPT OF WHAT F SAYS IN SPANISHThe truth is that we have one request: our freedom. Why? Because of the situation that is happening on a global scale. People are dying from coronavirus. Even in the United States, a world power, a first world power, the hospitals are collapsed. Here we are vulnerable, you understand? Here for us, if an officer comes in, gives us coronavirus, do you think that for us immigrants, the treatment they’ve given us during this whole time, is an adequate treatment? They’re not going to take a face mask from anyone, f

The COVID-19 outbreak is unprecedented. How do we begin to process what we are all experiencing? On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, we welcome Daniel Colón-Ramos, professor of cellular neuroscience at Yale and co-founder of Ciencia PR, to talk about what the science is saying and what we can learn about the pandemic. Featured image: In this March 19, 2020 photo, the Manhattan Bridge is seen in the background of a flashing sign urging commuters to avoid gatherings, reduce crowding and to wash hands in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this Latino Rebels Radio episode, we welcome Grecia Lima, the National Political Director for Community Change, to talk about Arizona and electoral politics. Plus, the latest about the COVID-19 crisis in the United States and the new guidelines published Monday evening by the White House and the CDC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the middle of the COVID-19 global crisis, we talk with Nadia Marín-Molina of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). Recently, NDLON released a ‘Worker and Migrant Justice Response to the Coronavirus’ platform. Featured image: A cleaning crew works at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Thursday, the Power 4 Puerto Rico Coalition held a press call to discuss an update to #ShowUsYourPRPolicy and why both policy proposals by Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are "still lacking," according to them. We are sharing the full press call for you to decide. Featured image by Carlos Giusti, Associated Press Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.