Name: May 24th, 2025: Criminalizing Venezuelan Migrants by Latino Media Collective
Duration: 57 min 20 s
Description: On this episode, the LMC welcomes Venezuelan sociologist María Páez Victor to break down the criminalization of Venezuelan migrants and the myth of the Tren de Aragua gang narrative in corporate media.

Freelance journalist Arturo Dominguez returns to discuss the latest controversies regarding the Trump administration's mass deportations and how ICE policies have become global.

April 4th, 2025: Putting Everything on ICE

Amid a firestorm of controversy over illegal deportations to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, the LMC spends the hour with Jorge Cuellar, assistant professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, to discuss Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's illegal deportation agreement with the Trump administration.

April 11th, 2025: Bukele's Prison Industrial Complex

On this special episode merging fashion with politics, the LMC spends the hour with writer Edward Salazar Celis on the political history of Latinos wearing black from the Zoot suit Chicanos from the 1930s to the west coast Chicanas in the 90s and everything in between from a working-class point of view.

Edward Salazar Celis is a writer, cultural critic and educator, specializing in Latin(x) American arts, fashion and visual cultures.

April 18th, 2025: The Politics of Wearing Black

James Early, the former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, joins the LMC to discuss the Trump administration's attempts to rewrite history by taking over the Smithsonian Institute, the Kennedy Center, and the defunding of public libraries.


April 25th, 2025: The Future of History

Military executions.  Police snipers.  Environmental racism.  On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Claudia O'Brien Moscoso and Arturo Ramirez, a professor of public policy at the Catholic University of Santiago, Guayaquil in Ecuador, on the challenges faced by Afro-Ecuadorians under the authoritarian presidency of Daniel Noboa.

May 2nd, 2025: Daniel Noboa vs Afro-Ecuadorians

Freelance writer Arturo Dominguez returns to the LMC to discuss the how tattoos are being used by the Trump administration to racially profile and deport innocent people with no criminal record.

May 9th, 2025: The Politics of Tattoos

On this episode, the LMC welcomes Venezuelan sociologist María Páez Victor to break down the criminalization of Venezuelan migrants and the myth of the Tren de Aragua gang narrative in corporate media.

May 24th, 2025: Criminalizing Venezuelan Migrants

Following a racist, xenophobic ad by the US Department of Homeland Security that ran on Mexico's airwaves last April, freelance writer Kurt Hackbarth breaks down Mexico's corporate media structure and how this controversy may lead to reforms in the country's telecommunications laws.

Kurt Hackbarth is also the host of the Sobrania Podcast.

May 30th, 2025: Mexico's Corporate Media

As the country continues to see mass arrests of migrants in courtrooms and in viral videos, the LMC spends the hour with Ernesto Castaneda from the Immigration Lab and the Center for Latino American and Latino Studies at American University to discuss migrant realities vs the myths that lead to racist, xenophobic government policies.  

Ernesto Castaneda is also the author of, "Challenging Common Misperceptions."

June 6th, 2025: Immigrant Realities

In the latest installment of the Undocumented & LGBTQ series, the LMC spends the hour with Malú Machuca Rose to discuss the unique challenges of Peru's LGBTQ community and how the country's civil war from generations ago still hinder the struggle for equal rights.

Malú Machuca Rose is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University.

June 13th, 2025: Undocumented & LGBTQ- Peru

The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.  

May 24th, 2025: Criminalizing Venezuelan Migrants

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