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Latin American Educational Opportunities

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    #51 Bananas: The 1954 US-Led Coup In Guatemala

    Episode Description:    How bananas led to the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government of Guatemala, violently reversing the progressive policies of the civilian governments. A coup that was ordered by the United Fruit Company ushering a 36-year civil war claiming the lives of about 200,000 people. If you aren’t from Guatemala or maybe even...

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    #49 (TECH) “Augmented reality contact lens” — Russian cyberattacks. Facebook may be underreporting child sexual abuse material.

    Mojo Vision has developed a new prototype of its augmented reality contact lenses. Biden warned that the Russian government could use cyberattacks to escalate the crisis. According to reports, Facebook might be underreporting child sexual abuse material.

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    #48 Indigenous Groups Occupy Bogotá Park in Protest

    Since last September, an Indigenous community, refugees forced off their land by armed groups from Colombia's ongoing rural violence, has been living in Bogotá's central Olaya Herrera National Park.

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    #47 (TECH) Mexico & The Global Spy Tool Pegasus

    A decade after Mexico became a testbed for the global spy tool now known as Pegasus, prosecutors still cannot say who ordered the mass surveillance of innocent civilians and government critics.

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    #46 Guatemalan Abortion Law

    In today's episode, we talk about a bill that is expected to be signed into law by Guatemala's conservative president within weeks... if passed it would impose the harshest punishments for abortion of almost any country in Latin America.

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    #45 (TECH) Technological Singularity

    The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization.

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    #44 Undocumented Stand-Up Comedian Che Guerrero

    Stand-up comedian and tik tok content creator Che Guerrero has been facing his undocumented problem for 30 years. He does stand up and puts out content mainly through tik-tok about being undocumented and has recently released his own podcast called “Myundocumentedasspodcast” where he talks to other undocumented people about their personal struggles with the immigration system in a funny, revealing, and humanizing way.

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    #43 🥑BIG Avocado “Mexico’s Blood Diamonds”

    This episode is all about the darker side of Avocados also dubbed “the blood diamonds of Mexico” due to Drug cartels increasingly controlling the avocado trade, the environmental impact, the amount of water they consume, and how they are grown. We’ll also be talking about why there was a recent temporary ban that was placed on avocados from Mexico.

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    #42 Talk Your Business May Pérez: Building a Sustainable Business While Being An Immigrant

    May explains to us how being an immigrant has fueled her to pursue her vision. May Pérez is the founder & owner of Lunartesanal. A business born out of intention and love. Lunartesanal is bringing you beautiful hand, artisan & sustainable pieces made in El Salvador.

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    #41(TECH) “The Digital Border Wall” – Robot patrol dogs. 14 pieces of surveillance tech that make up the U.S. “digital border wall”

    A “digital border wall” has been steadily built along the U.S.-Mexico border for the last four presidential administrations, overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.

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Latin American Educational Opportunities

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LEO

Produced by Kevin Muñoz

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