While not a country we hear about often these days, Nicaragua has gone through quite a turbulent history that has left it with long-lasting economic, political and social scars. And leaving aside the subject of Daniel Ortega, current dictator of Nicaragua and one of the longest-lasting presidential terms in the world (with 26 interrupted years in power), N ... Show More
Yesterday
Music Without Translation: The Bad Bunny Phenomenon (Música Sin Traducción, El Fenómeno Bad Bunny)
Bad Bunny. A name, a personality, a legend (maybe)? Everyone knows him, everybody feels something towards him, whether it's love, admiration, or pure rejection. He's the face for Latin American music right now, and he seems to be skyrocketing towards more and more success as the ... Show More
29m 26s
Apr 28
How Latin America Has Changed the World (Cómo América Latina Ha Cambiado el Mundo)
Let's do an exercise - since we've already explored how Latin America has been changed by Spanish colonization, by the influence of the United States, and other nations... why don't we spin it around for once, and ask how Latin America has influenced the rest of the world?After a ... Show More
32m 20s
Nov 2024
Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligarchies and constant US intervention, the US-backed separation of Panama from Colo ... Show More
1h 55m
Aug 2024
174. The Cuban Revolution
It’s 1959 and the swaggering Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro, has just overthrown the unpopular American backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Che Guevara, the Marxist physician whose face would become an internationally recognised symbol of resistance, is at his side. But how di ... Show More
56m 59s
May 2025
The Zapatista Uprising | 135
On January 1, 1994, masked indigenous rebels burst from therainforest in Chiapas, Mexico to launch an uprising that was years in themaking. The Zapatista Army declared war on the Mexican Government demanding basics rights for the diverse Mayan communities who lived in extreme pov ... Show More
35m 15s
Jul 2024
La Gran Colombia - Gran Colombia
<p>In this episode, we explore the intriguing story of Gran Colombia, a political entity envisioned by Simón Bolívar to unify South American territories into a powerful state. We'll discuss the motivations behind this ambitious project, the internal and external challenges i ... Show More
18m 53s
Dec 2023
Season 3, Episode 2: Lindsey A. O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War
Send us Fan MailJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke as they discuss O’Rourke’s remarkable book, Covert Regime Change. US foreign policy is based heavily on trying to overthrow foreign governments, and O’Rourke’s account is a powerful and deeply s ... Show More
42m 22s
Jul 2021
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Michel-Rolph Trouillot wrote that “the silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in wa ... Show More
1h 10m