Latin Pulse: 1.22.2016




Latin Pulse show

Summary: Latin Pulse registers its 200th episode this week, so the program looks back at the audience's favorite programs since the program became an online radio project.  Themes included in the program include migration, the Drug War, the civil war in Colombia, indigenous issues, and the construction of the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil. The program also includes a discussion of religion, including Santeria and about the folk saint Santa Muerte.  The news segment of the program analyzes the surprise diplomatic move this week by President Mauricio Macri in Argentina to reach out to the United Kingdom. The program includes interviews with: Maureen Meyer of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA); Gimena Sanchez of WOLA; Eve Bratman of American University; Michael Atwood Mason, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage; and Andrew Chesnut of Virginia Commonwealth University. Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell;  Technical Director: Jim Singer; and Associate Producer: Natalie Ottinger. (To download or stream this podcast, click here.)   (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.)   podcast news Latin America Brazil politics Mexico Argentina Cuba diplomacy immigration United States Drug War Falkland Islands violence U.S. Border Patrol Afro-Latin American issues Belo Monte Dam Los Malvinas United Kingdom David Cameron Mauricio Macri drug cartels indigenous issues military Colombia FARC religion cocaine aerial fumigation The Amazon media media Santeria Santa Muerte health issues indigenous religion narco-religion