Latin Pulse: 1.22.2016

Latin Pulse

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.)

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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