Latin Pulse: 7.15.2016

An hour-long special covers various issues regarding human rights and democratization on Latin Pulse this week. The program includes a wide-ranging discussion of the various crises affecting Venezuela, including the political and economic situations. The analysis also includes discussions on the peace process in Colombia and accusations of human rights abuses by the military in Honduras. The program also includes a review of a book on corruption in Brazil. The news segment of the program covers how El Salvador's Supreme Court struck down the country's amnesty law opening the door to human rights prosecutions linked to the country's civil war. The program includes in-depth interviews with: Dan Hellinger of Webster University; Orlando Perez of Millersville University; Gimena Sanchez of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA); and Alex Cuadros, author of Brazillionaires. Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; Technical Director: Jim Singer; and Production Assistant: Chorsie Martin. (To download or stream this podcast, click here.) (The program is 60 minutes in length and the file size is 83 MB.) podcast news Latin America politics Brazil atrocities massacres violence crime human rights El Salvador Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Organization of American States Juan Orlando Hernandez Juan Manuel Santos Carlos Andres Perez military UN Berta Caceres Dilma Rousseff U.S. Congress corruption protest movement Colombia Petrobras Spain Jesuits assassinations economics OAS CELAC media impeachment food shortages food riots recall movement political repression Honduras media oil UNASUR coup democracy authoritarianism police homicide ELN paramilitaries FARC cocaine infrastructure torture Nicolas Maduro Hugo Chavez Luis Almagro United Nations Manuel Zelaya Drug War peace process United States Workers Party Mexico