Loud & Clear

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Eugene Puryear, the cohost of the Sputnik News program By Any Means Necessary, and Dr. John Ackerman, professor of Constitutional Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), researcher at the Legal Research Institute of UNAM, and editorial director of the Mexican Law Review.Mexicans will go to the polls on Sunday to choose their next president and Congress at a time of widespread disillusionment at unchecked corruption, poverty, and violence that has claimed more than 200,000 lives since 2007. Left-wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is expected to win a landslide victory, but the political right and billionaire businessmen—including Americans—are doing everything they can to stop him. On today’s regular Friday segment covering the upcoming midterm elections, the hosts talk about the huge upsets that happened in this week’s primaries. Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, and the c