Latin Pulse: 9.16.2016

On Mexico's independence day Latin Pulse focuses this week on key themes for the country: the Drug War, national security, immigration, corruption, justice, and of course, politics. The program includes an in-depth interview tracking the effects of the visit of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump to Mexico. The program also looks at a new violent uptick in the Drug War, with clashes between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Nueva Generacion Jalisco Cartel. The news segment of the program covers new indictments against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the popular former president of Brazil often just called Lula. The program includes an in-depth interview with: Maureen Myer of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; and Associate Producer: Jim Singer. (To download or stream this podcast, click here.) (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.) podcast news Latin America politics Brazil Mexico corruption PRI Petrobras PAN Dilma Rousseff United States oil prisons immigration Michel Temer Petrobras oil Drug War Eduardo Cunha trade Donald Trump Central America media human rights Sinaloa Cartel Workers Party Enrique Pena Nieto Institutional Revolutionary Party National Action Party Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Nueva Generacion Jalisco Cartel Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva violence elections Felipe Calderon extrajudicial killings disappearances justice military torture massacres Ayotzinapa police diplomacy Joe Biden Barack Obama drug cartels