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Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is a new podcast from Alborada bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña. (https://twitter.com/rodrigoac7) Produced and edited by Pablo Navarrete. (https://twitter.com/pablonav1) Music by Chylez Productions. (https://www.instagram.com/chylezprod/)
In the 25th and sadly last episode of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to journalists Nathalia Urban about solidarity from Brazil and Latin America towards Palestine following Israel's ongoing attacks since 7 October 2023. He also speaks to journalist Anthony Loewenstein about how Israel exports its technology to Latin America.
Nathália Urban is a Brazilian journalist who is also a contributing editor for Alborada. Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein is the author of the book ‘The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World.’ Antony's book won the Walkleys Book Award of 2023, which is Australia’s leading journalism prize, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in the USA.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In episode 24 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to academic Francisco Dominguez about Argentina's new far-right president Javier Milei.
An expert on Latin American politics, Dr Francsico Domiguez is a former senior lecturer at Middlesex University in the UK and co-editor of ‘Right-Wing Politics in the New Latin America: Reaction and Revolt’, published in 2011 by Zed Books.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In episode eight of our podcast The Americas Uncovered, host Dr Peter Watt of Sheffield University in the UK, speaks to John McEvoy about 'Britain and the Other 9/11', the forthcoming he is co-directing, and his investigative journalism on the UK's role in Latin America more broadly.
This podcast was recorded an in-person event - more info here.
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool, UK and an investigative journalist whose work focusses on British foreign policy and Latin America. He regularly writes for Declassified UK.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Music by Peter Watt
Artwork by Simon Díaz-Cuffin
In episode 23 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Tanya Harmer about her latest book ‘Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America'.
Dr Tanya Harmer is a specialist on the Cold War in Latin America with a particular interest in the international, transnational and global dynamics of the struggle. She has written widely on Chile’s revolutionary process in the 1970s, the Cuban Revolution’s influence in Latin America, counter-revolution and inter-American diplomacy, solidarity networks, women and gender. More info here.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In episode 22 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks Margaret Power about her latest book book ‘Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism.’
Margaret Power is professor emerita of history at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the USA.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In episode seven of our podcast The Americas Uncovered, host Dr Peter Watt of Sheffield University in the UK, speaks to Maria Vásquez Aguilar and Pablo Navarrete following an in-person screening of the documentary, The Chicago Boys.
Maria is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, a child exile to the UK from Chile and co-founder of Chile Solidarity Network and Chile 50 Years UK.
Pablo Navarrete is the founding editor of Alborada and director of Alborada Films.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Music by Peter Watt
Artwork by Simon Díaz-Cuffin
In episode sixof our podcast The Americas Uncovered, host Dr Peter Watt of Sheffield University in the UK, speaks to Jorge E. Cuellar about his research on Central American Studies, Cultural Studies, Race, Migration, and Critical Social Theory.
Jorge E. Cuellar is Assistant Professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Music by Peter Watt
Artwork by Simon Díaz-Cuffin
In episode 21 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to author, lawyer and
human rights activist Dan Kovalik about Nicaraguan politics, past and present.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In episode five of our podcast The Americas Uncovered, host Dr Peter Watt of Sheffield University in the UK, speaks to Linda Farthing and Thomas Becker about their book, Coup: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia. The book dissects the events around the 2019 coup against the government of Evo Morales following his victory in the presidential election.
Linda Farthing is a journalist and independent scholar who works in Bolivia.
Thomas Becker is the Legal and Policy Director and a Senior Clinical Supervisor at the University Network for Human Rights.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Music by Peter Watt
Artwork by Simon Díaz-Cuffin
In episode 20 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to academic Étienne von Bertrab about the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in Mexico.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In London recently for the Latin America Adelante Conference, Alborada organised the panel 'Latin America, Mainstream Media Misrepresentation & the Independent Media Fightback'. The panel was organised in association with the Independent Media Association.
For more information on the panel including the list of speakers, click here.
Panel recorded by Peter Watt, host of the Alborada podcast The Americas Uncovered.
Despite brutal US sanctions that have had a major impact on everyday life for its citizens, Cuba's commitment to internationalism and anti-imperialism continues to burn brightly.
Cuba expert Helen Yaffe discussed the situation in Cuba today, and what the recent wave of progressive governments in Latin America means for the island, with Alborada co-editor Nick MacWilliam.
Helen is Senior Lecturer in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow. She’s the author of books such as Che Guevara: the Economics of Revolution and We Are Cuba: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World.
With corporate media increasingly concentrated in elite hands, independent media has an important role to play in providing accurate reporting on Brazil and elsewhere.
Brazilian journalist Nathália Urban discussed the topic with Peter Watt at London's Latin America Adelante Conference in late January.
Peter Watt teaches on Latin America at Sheffield University and is the host of Alborada’s podcast, The Americas Uncovered.
In London recently for the Latin America Adelante Conference, academic and author Francisco Domínguez spoke to Peter Watt about what the government of Lula Da Slva can expect from the Brazilian far-right and strategies for confronting it.
Dr Francisco Dominguez is a Chilean academic and author based at Middlesex University in the UK.
Peter Watt teaches on Latin America at Sheffield University and is the host of Alborada’s podcast, The Americas Uncovered.
You can now listen to episode four of our podcast, The Americas Uncovered, hosted by Dr Peter Watt of Sheffield University in the UK. In this episode, Peter speaks to Christy Thornton, Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, about her book Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy, which explores the Mexican Revolution's influence on international economic institutions.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Produced by Pablo Navarrete and Nick MacWilliam
Music by Peter Watt
Artwork by Simon Díaz-Cuffin
In episode 19 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to investigate journalist John McEvoy about his work uncovering the UK government's anti-democratic machinations in Latin America.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In London recently for the Latin America Adelante Conference, Alborada organised the panel 'Chile: 50 Years of Solidarity and Struggle'. The panel was organised in association with Chile 50 Years UK.
For more information on the panel including the list of speakers, click here.
Panel recorded by Peter Watt, host of the Alborada podcast The Americas Uncovered.
In London recently for the Latin America Adelante Conference, Melany Cruz, a Chilean writer and academic, spoke to Peter Watt about the challenges facing the Chilean Left under Gabriel Boric's government.
Melany Cruz is Lecturer in Politics of the Global South at Leicester University and has written on Chilean politics for a number of media outlets.
Peter Watt teaches on Latin America at Sheffield University and is the host of Alborada’s podcast, The Americas Uncovered.
In London recently for the Latin America Adelante Conference, Peter Watt spoke to US author, lawyer and activist about international solidarity with Latin America.
Dan Kovalik is the author of several books on the region, including his most recent, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance. Dan is also a longtime campaigner for human rights and social justice in Latin America and elsewhere.
Peter Watt teaches on Latin America at Sheffield University and is the host of Alborada's podcast, The Americas Uncovered.
You can now listen to episode three of our podcast, The Americas Uncovered, hosted by Dr Peter Watt of Sheffield University in the UK. In this episode, Peter speaks to Alex Aviña, Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA, about his book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Produced by Pablo Navarrete
Music by Peter Watt
Artwork by Simon Díaz-Cuffin
In episode 18 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Zoe Alexandra about the December 2022 soft coup in Peru by the country’s right-wing congress against the democratically elected progressive president Pedro Castillo. Zoe Alexandra is a journalist and co-editor of Peoples Dispatch. She covers social movements and leftist politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Zoe was recently in Peru covering the pro-democracy demonstrations against the coup.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In episode 17 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Ollie Vargas about Latin American football, the region's connection to the FIFA men's World Cup and some of the politics surrounding Qatar’s hosting of the tournament in 2022. A Bolivian based journalist, Vargas is the co-founder of Kawsachun News and South American Fútbol. Ollie is also the host of the podcast Latin America Review and joined us from Buenos Aires, where he was for the final.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In episode 16 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Argentinian filmmaker Rodrigo Vázquez about Operation Condor, a coordinated operation between the intelligence organisations of the dictatorships of the southern cone of South America during the 1970s and 80s. The director of the 2003 film ‘Plan Condor: Axis of Evil’, Rodrigo Vázquez has made 30 investigative political documentaries on Latin America and other parts of the world
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
You can now listen to episode two of our new podcast, The Americas Uncovered, hosted by Dr Peter Watt of Sheffield University in the UK. In this episode, Peter speaks to Aviva Chomsky, Professor of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts, USA, about her recent book Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration.
To listen to this second episode of The Americas Uncovered, click here.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Produced by Pablo Navarrete and Nick MacWilliam
Music by Peter Watt
Artwork by Simon Díaz-Cuffin
In the first episode of our new podcast The Americas Uncovered, host Dr Peter Watt speaks to Dr Francesca Lessa about her book The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America. 28 November 2022 marks 47 years since the beginning of Operación Cóndor (Operation Condor) a US government backed campaign of state terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America.
Presented by Dr Peter Watt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Produced by Pablo Navarrete
Music by Peter Watt
As Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador approaches four years in office, our panel analyses advances and challenges under his government.
The 2018 election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador raised hope that Mexico could change direction from the neoliberal policies of his predecessors and a new approach to the drugs war that has left over 200,000 dead since 2006. Almost four years into a six-year term, how has AMLO’s government fared? What have been its main achievements? And what do the critics say? We are joined by a leading panel to discuss these questions and others.
This event held on Wednesday 9 November 2022.
Speakers:
- Étienne von Bertrab – Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London, Director of Albora: Mexico’s Geography of Hope, and columnist in Pie de Página
- Violeta Vázquez Rojas – Mexican linguist, researcher, columnist and Doctor in Linguistics at New York University
- David Raby – Retired Professor in Latin American Studies and author of ‘Democracy & Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today
- Jeremy Corbyn - Former Leader of the Labour Party
- Meme Yamel – Mexican journalist, director of The Mexico News
- Chaired by Alborada co-editor Nick MacWilliam
Watch a video recording of the event here.
Our panel analyses what’s at stake for Brazil and beyond as former president Lula Da Silva faces incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a 30 October election run-off.
Event held on 12 September 2022: https://alborada.net/watch-brazils-presidential-election-run-off-whats-at-stake-alborada-online/
Alborada contributing editor Juliano Fiori joins 'Not PMQs' from Rio de Janiero to give an update on the Brazilian Presidential Election campaign.
In episode fifteen of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Tatiana Marroquín on the record of El Salvador’s current president Nayib Bukele. An independent economist, feminist and human rights activist based in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, Tatiana also has post-graduate studies in finance and is a
former legal analyst for the country's national assembly.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
Alborada contributing editor Juliano Fiori speaks to the UK’s Not the Andrew Marr Show about Brazil’s election and what might happen in the run-off on 30 October.
Watch the video interview here.
And register here to join our latest Alborada Online 'Brazil's Presidential Election Run-Off: What's At Stake?' on Tuesday 25 October (7pm London / 3pm Sao Paulo).
Latin America is in the midst of a leftwing resurgence, a new “pink tide”, following the defeat of a US and UK sponsored coup in Bolivia and spectacular recent election victories in countries such as Honduras, Chile and, most recently, Colombia. With Brazil’s Workers’ Party polling strongly ahead of the October election, the Left is riding a resurgent wave across Latin America. What are the lessons of these victories for those in Britain seeking to resist and create alternatives to their own reactionary ruling political and media class?
As well as the speakers listed here, we were also joined by Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the UK Labour Party and a longstanding supporter of Latin American social justice campaigns.
Watch a video recording of the event here.
Our panel analyses the 4 September referendum result in Chile, in which 62% of voters rejected a new progressive constitution.
Event held on 12 September 2022: https://alborada.net/chile-constitution-reject-alborada-online/
In episode fourteen of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Jorge Saavedra Utman who is a lecturer at the Faculty of Communication and Letters at the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. A media expert, Jorge discusses the proposed progressive constitution which put to Chilean voters on 4 September possibly ending magna carta established under the Pinochet dictatorship. https://alborada.net/indestructible-episode-14/
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In the thirteenth episode of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Nathália Urban about Brazil's upcoming 2022 presidential elections. Nathália is a Brazilian journalist who writes for Brazil Wire, Brasil247 and Jacobin Brasil amongst others.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is an Alborada podcast bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced and edited by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
In this twelfth episode of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Carlos Cruz Mosquera about Colombia’s 2022 presidential election. Carlos is a Colombian PhD candidate and teaching associate at Queen Mary, University of London. https://alborada.net/indestructible/
In this eleventh episode of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Dr Victor Figueroa Clark about Chilean politics and the recent election of former student leader Gabriel Boric as president. Victor is the author of Salvador Allende: Revolutionary Democrat (2013) https://alborada.net/indestructible/
In the tenth episode of Indestructible, Rodrigo introduces clips of three interviews with English-language Venezuela analysts in Caracas, Venezuela. Rodrigo spoke to them for the upcoming documentary he is producing with journalist Nicholas Ford titled ‘Venezuela: The Cost of Challenging an Empire’.
In the ninth episode of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur, authors of the new book Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela (2021)https://alborada.net/indestructible/
In the eight episode of Indestructible Podcast Rodrigo interviews Grace Livingstone who is a journalist and academic, specialising in Latin American affairs. She has reported for the BBC World Service, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman. She is an affiliated lecturer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. https://alborada.net/indestructible/
In the seventh episode of Indestructible Rodrigo interviews Medea Benjamin about US foreign policy towards Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Peru. Medea is one of the United States’ most distinguished peace activists and the co-founder of both the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the human rights group Global Exchange.https://alborada.net/indestructible/
In the sixth episode of Indestructible Rodrigo interviews Clinton Fernandes about Australia’s intelligence agencies involvement in Chile in the 1970s and Canberra’s foreign policy towards East Timor, Indonesia, China and the United States. Clinton is a former Australian Army officer who served in the Australian Intelligence Corps and currently works as a Professor of International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales. https://alborada.net/indestructible/
In the fifth episode of Indestructible Rodrigo interviews journalist Camila Escalante about covering important stories on Latin America the mainstream media often ignore. Camila works for Kawsachun News and is based in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
https://alborada.net/indestructible/
In the fourth episode of Indestructible, Rodrigo interviews Alan Macleod about how the corporate media in the English-speaking world covers Latin
America and, amongst numerous issues, what are they not telling us about the region.
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is a new podcast from Alborada bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
::: Episode 3:
Colombia's Struggle for Peace: An Interview with Mariela Kohon
In the third episode of Indestructible, Rodrigo interviews Mariela Kohon who is a Senior International Officer at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the United Kingdom and worked as an advisor to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) during the signing of the historic 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian State and the FARC rebels.
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Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña
Produced and edited by Pablo Navarrete
Music by Chylez Productions
Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon
Get in touch with the podcast: info [at] alborada [dot] netFacebook / Twitter / Instagram
Indestructible: Latin America with Rodrigo Acuña is a new podcast from Alborada bringing you monthly discussions with some of the most interesting voices working on and from Latin America.
::: Episode 2:
Wikileaks & Latin America: An Interview with Julian Assange's Father John Shipton
In the second episode of Indestructible, Rodrigo interviews Julian Assange's father John Shipton about his son’s case, and the connections his Wikileaks work has with Latin America.
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Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced and edited by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon.
Get in touch with the podcast: info [at] alborada [dot] netFacebook / Twitter / Instagram
::: Episode 1:
Fidel Castro Up Close: An Interview with Eduardo Torres Flores
In the first episode of Indestructible, Rodrigo interviews Mexican filmmaker Eduardo Torres Flores on his new documentary film ‘Fidel Up Close: An Intimate Portrait of Fidel Castro.’
Listen to episode 1 on Alborada’s YouTube channel here.
Click here to go to the Indestructible homepage.
Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced and edited by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.
Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon.
Get in touch with the podcast: info [at] alborada [dot] netFacebook / Twitter / Instagram