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Pirate Wire RadioEcuador National Strike - PWS PODCASTNews ahoy! It’s Saturday, (yeah, we're a little late, sorry, Piratas) and even though most stories reach the Good Ship Capybara via a message in a bottle, we’ve got plenty of updates for you today.Last Sunday, Colombians voted in a second round of presidential elections that saw leftist ex-mayor of Bogotá and former M19 militant, Gustavo Petro, elected to the top job. His vice president is the trailblazing Afrocolombian environmental activist, Francia Márquez. In this week’s podcast, Daniela looks at Ecuador, where Amnesty International has sounded the alarm over a “human right...2022-06-2507 min
Pirate Wire RadioThis Argentine "university" was actually a crypto ponzi schemeComo siempre, deslizáte para abajo para leer todo en castellano.Hola Piratas!This week was an especially chaotic one in Latin America. Joshua and Daniela are buried under a mountain of electioneering pamphlets and deadlines as they scramble to cover the end of a fractious and dramatic presidential race in Colombia.Amy and Paulo, recently recovered from the plague, have resumed full-time duties aboard our privateer vessel in search of ever more hard-hitting stories from the front lines of indy journalism. In this week’s Pirate Wire Services pod...2022-06-1713 min
Pirate Wire RadioElections in Colombia: the big explainerAhoy! It’s been a labor intensive week for the PWS crew as presidential elections near in Colombia, which is what we’re talking about in this week's podcast!Amy and Paulo are well on the road to recovery after involuntary Covid vacations. Daniela and Joshua meanwhile are hunkered down in Bogotá hoping that a tense election weekend passes without incident.This week in the headlines in Latam!In terrible scenes in Brazil, 26 people were killed on Tuesday in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Vila Cruzeiro during a police operation to capture drug t...2022-05-2709 min
Pirate Wire RadioProtests in Peru: right-wing resistance or popular demonstrations?Ahoy!Welcome to this week’s Pirate Wire Services, we hope you’ve successfully navigated the seas of April so far. In this podcast episode, Paulo Rosas is looking at a wave of protests in Peru this week. These were initially triggered by rising fuel prices, but spread and became more violent when beleaguered president Pedro Castillo responded by declaring a curfew in Lima.Stories we’re watching* Allegations of voter fraud in Colombia over local and senate elections are escalating. Former president Álvaro Uribe, whose party Centro Democratico faced heavy losses, is refusin...2022-04-0810 min
Pirate Wire RadioTreatment of Ukrainians at the US border raises perceptions of racism in migration policy*Update: On April 1st, just after this podcast was published, the CDC announced an end to Title 42 beginning the end of May. You can find details on the process here.****Castellano más abajo***Ahoy there!We hope you’ve safely navigated your way to the weekend. Today, we’re interrupting normal transmission to tell you about some changes. Pirate Wire Services has just turned six months old, and we’ve decided it’s time to make good on our promise to develop the project into a podcast. O...2022-04-0113 min