This week Latin Pulse focuses on the debate over the controversial gang truce in Honduras and what can be learned from the politics and conditions of a similar truce in El Salvador. The truce is between the Honduran factions of the street gangs MS-13 and Barrio 18: these gangs include tens of thousands of members in the United States and Central America. Experts in Mexico and the United States weigh in on the truce and give important context. This week, the news segment of the program looks at the diplomatic breakthrough between the United States and Venezuela.The program includes in-depth interviews with:
Sonja Wolf of INSYDE; and
Jon Wolseth, author of Jesus and the Gang.
Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell
Associate Producer: Curt Devine
Writer: Zach Cohen.
(To download or stream this podcast, click here.)
(The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 28 MB.)
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Latin America
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El Salvador
Honduras
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Barack Obama
Central America
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Barrio 18
John Kerry
OAS
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Bishop Romulo Emiliani
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Mara Salvatrucha 13
Nicolas Maduro
Venezuela
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Elias Jaua
liberation theology
human rights
Evangelicals
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Ecuador
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Catholic Church
Central America
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