Latino Rebels Radio

Actor James Franco is set to play Fidel Castro in a movie. Excuse me? Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Cristina Escobar, co-creator of LatinaMedia.Co and LR’s resident entertainment writer, to discuss Hollywood’s latest example of why this one casting move misses the mark. Again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On a special episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes both his producer Oscar Fernández and Washington D.C. activist Vikram Surya Chiruvolu to discuss the death of longtime Adams Morgan resident Miguel Gonzáles and how it serves as a cautionary tale of predatory lending, gentrification and houselessness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks shop with Lucy Flores, the CEO of Luz Media and former member of the Nevada State Assembly, on the importance of creating digital media spaces and leadership for Latinas.Luz Media celebrates “Latina strength, creativity, and success through storytelling” and is in the middle of a new crowdfunding campaign to further its mission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes back David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Suave podcast to discuss his recent work and how the pitfalls of the criminal justice system still need to be challenged. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While Latino Rebels Radio takes a couple of weeks off for the summer, producer Oscar Fernández steps in the guest host chair with a new episode of his Latino Media Collective show.On the 10th anniversary of the parliamentary coup against Fernando Lugo, the LMC spends the hour with freelance writer Norma Flores Allende on the historic challenges the Paraguayan left faces in a tightly controlled, one-party state. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While Latino Rebels Radio takes a couple of weeks off for the summer, producer Oscar Fernández steps in the guest host chair with a new episode of his Latino Media Collective show.Torturer. Fascist. Murderer. Godfather of the death squads.The LMC speaks with professor Jorge Cuellar about the dark shadow that Roberto D’Aubuisson cast over El Salvador. Cuellar is an assistant professor of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Futuro Media’s Detroit Community Podcast Lab, Latino Rebels Radio is proud to present an episode of Have You Heard, a happy hour podcast hosted by Arlyssa Heard. In this episode, Arlyssa discusses how reactionary forces both in and out of government are attacking Michigan’s public school system.Special thanks to WDET and Futuro Media’s Joaquin Cotler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the first time in its history, Colombia has moved to the left with the election of Gustavo Petro as president and Francia Márquez, the country's first Afro-Colombian vice president.Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes freelance writer Christina Noriega from Bogotá to break down both the victory and the challenges ahead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Washington correspondent Pablo Manríquez to break down a busy month on Capitol Hill, which includes the January 6 hearings, Puerto Rico's new status bill and the green card backlog immigration debate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela proudly welcomes award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González to discuss the second revision of his legendary book and how it relates to recent events. They talk about the current Summit of the Americas, the news of a migrant caravan this week and the latest about Puerto Rico.The second revision of Harvest of Empire releases on June 14. You can read more about the updated version at the Penguin Random House site. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The May 24 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, will continue to resonate for a very long time. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with LR contributor Arturo Domínguez about gun control, over-policing, community neglect, and how Texas lawmakers skirt around viable possible solutions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Does the newly proposed Puerto Rico consensus status bill pose the most serious challenge yet to the island's colonial status? Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela searches for answers on this historic bill with Rafael Cox Alomar, professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following the tragic domestic terrorist attack in Buffalo that killed 10 Black lives, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with attorney Sophia Hall of Lawyers for Civil Rights about the denial, complacency and normalization of white supremacy in the country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following last week’s Supreme Court draft opinion leak that may mark the end of abortion rights in the U.S., Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with journalist Juanita Ramos Ardila to discuss why some countries in Latin America are going in the other direction and how feminist groups in Colombia, Mexico and Argentina are leading the charge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a series of new audio stories, Futuro Media senior producer Julieta Martinelli will explore Tennessee’s juvenile lifer law, how it has been applied, how it could possibly change due to a pending Tennessee Supreme Court ruling, and how tough-on-crime legislation threatens to dismantle any progress.Julieta will meet some of those 185 juveniles sentenced to life, currently incarcerated in Tennessee prisons. Over the next few months, she will explore the laws, the potential remedies and those at the heart of them. And she’ll learn how race, economic status, and even politics affect the possibility that they will ever have a chance at redemption, like hundreds of others already have across the country.This reporting was conducted with the support of a grant from Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Random sombreros? Not so subtle racism? Cinco de Drinko? Trump on tequila? It's that time again for Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela to welcome back Gregorio Pedroza for another absurd and cringeworthy installment of “Cinco de Fallo.”Please cringe responsibly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the 20th anniversary month of a U.S.-supported coup in Venezuela that shook the foundation of Latin American politics, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela examines the legacy of Chavismo with Alejandro Velasco —New York University historian and former executive editor of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)—to take stock and discuss NACLA’s latest "Chavismo Revisited" April issue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can there be an alternative approach to Puerto Rico's statehood vs. status quo vs. independence divide? Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela searches for answers with Jean René Santiago-Cruz and Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán of Estadistas MVC to explore a left-wing progressive stake regarding statehood.NOTE: The views on the merits of the different status options from Jean René and Victoria are not representative of Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC). Estadistas MVC is an autonomous network that is affiliated with but not institutionally representative of MVC because Estadistas MVC's coalescing element (statehood) is not shared by many MVC members (pro-independence and pro-sovereignty supporters). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Latino Rebels Radio producer Oscar Fernández presents another Latino Media Collective show from Washington, D.C. For this episode, the LMC revisits our childhood as it spends the hour with Professor Isabella Cosse to discuss her fantastic book, Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic.For more LMC shows, go here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following a recent rise in homicides that led to the Nayib Bukele administration's subsequent declaration of a state of emergency in El Salvador, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with Salvadoran professor Jorge Cuellar about current policies and how they’re connected to previous historical decisions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.