With the visit of President Barack Obama to Mexico and Central America this week Latin Pulse focuses on the agenda of the United States in the region. Obama has underlined the importance of trade and economic agreements that will frame this trip. However, the program also ranges into the issues of immigration and the Drug War that will undoubtedly also be important to this round of diplomacy. The news segment of the program covers the clash in the Venezuelan National Assembly between the ruling socialist party and the opposition, leaving lawmakers literally bruised and battered.The program includes in-depth interviews with:
Manuel Suarez-Mier of American University; and
Francisco Robles Rivera of the Universidad Nacional and the Universidad de Costa Rica.
Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell
Associate Producer: Curt Devine.
(To download or stream this podcast, click here.)
(The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 28 MB.)
podcast
news
Latin America
El Salvador
Central America
Barack Obama
United States
immigration
politics
Mexico
Venezuela
economics
trade
diplomacy
European Union
deportations
Drug War
violence
NAFTA
CAFTA
poverty
Enrique Pena Nieto
Trans-Pacific Partnership
human rights
Otto Perez Molina
Guatemala
El Salvador
John Kerry
CELAC
imperialism
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