Latino Rebels Radio

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.Featured image by Amy Pratt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

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.Featured image by FrankOWeaver. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

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

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

On the weekend of our seventh birthday, Latino Rebels founder @julito77 shares his thoughts about the past, present and future of LR. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

In the past week, Nicaragua has seen protests that have led to dozens of deaths. What is happening and why does it matter? Latino Rebels Radio talks with Catherine María Rodríguez, a Nicaraguan-American who has been actively sharing what is going on. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This past week, Arizona's Supreme Court unanimously struck down in-state tuition for DACA students. We talk with undocumented rights leader and Arizonan Belén Sisa about what this all means to the state's estimated 2,000-3,000 students who will see their tuition increase significantly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A few weeks after the March For Our Lives in DC and a speech that broke the internet, Latino Rebels' Sharis Delgadillo speaks with Edna Chávez and Hakim Johnson from Community Coalition in Los Angeles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While Puerto Rico continues to recover from Hurricane María, the island's current pro-statehood government has announced a commission or "shadow" group of representatives who are trying to call more attention to making the U.S. territory the 51st state of the Union. How realistic is that effort? Is it tangible or just political charade? Latino Rebels Radio speaks with Alfonso Aguilar, President of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles and a member of the statehood commission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Latino Rebels Radio, our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over our feed as guest hosts. The LMC asks: Can Brazil's unionized sex workers, through activism and organizing, overcome the stigma and general disdain for their profession to find some degree of dignity, respect and self-identification on their own terms? Amanda De Lisio, a post-doctoral research assistant at Bournemouth University, speaks with the LMC about this incredible story of struggle and perseverance.For more LMC shows, visit their site here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Tuesday March 20 will be the six-month anniversary of Hurricane María devastating Puerto Rico. Julio López Varona of The Center for Popular Democracy joins us to discuss how the island has changed and why what happened last year can never be forgotten.Featured show image: Fajardo, Puerto Rico a few days after Hurricane María (Photo by Dennis Rivera Pichardo | Center for Investigative Journalism) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Latino Media Collective guest hosts this week's show and takes us to the Central American country of Belize. Janelle Chanona, cice rpesident of the Belize Committee of Oceana, speaks with the LMC about the extraordinary grassroots efforts to ban future oil drillings in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Belize may be small, but it is front and center in the struggle for environmental justice in Latin America and the West Indies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latino Rebels Radio is out early this weekend, as Alex Nogales of the National Hispanic Media Coalition joins us to talk about the Lesly Kahn fiasco that Latino Rebels covered, the NHMC's "Oscars So White" protest and the battle for Net Neutrality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Latino Media Collective guest hosts this week's Latino Rebels Radio with an episode Canada's immigration system. For several years, the Canadian immigration system has become more in lockstep with the United States, especially when it comes to asylum seekers and the undocumented. The LMC speaks with Patricia Martin, an associate professor of Geography at the Université de Montreal, about the myths and harsh realities of migrating to Canada.For more LMC episodes, go to the team's main site. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This past weekend, HuffPost national reporter Roque Planas wrote a story about Norma Herrera, who in 2016 was put on suicide watch. Roque's reporting noted that Norma's condition "was likely triggered... by the experience of living as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. Her recurring nightmares were a symptom of her illness." Her multiple diagnoses included PTSD. Latino Rebels spoke with Roque about this story and why the issue of mental health in immigrant communities continues to be overlooked.To read Roque's full story, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.