Indestructible Podcast #25 – Palestine - Solidarity from Latin America w/ Nathalia Urban and Anthony Loewenstein.

2 March 2024

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. 

Listen to episode 25 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #24 – Argentina's Far-Right President Javier Milei w/ Francisco Dominguez

31 December 2023

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.

Listen to episode 24 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #23 – Beatriz Allende - A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America w/ Tanya Harmer

30 September 2023

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.

Listen to episode 23 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #22 – Puerto Rico's Struggle for Independence w/ Margaret Power

22 August 2023

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.

Listen to episode 22 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #20 – Beyond the Headlines - Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) w/ Étienne von Bertrab

18 May 2023

In episode 20 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to academic Étienne von Bertrab about the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in Mexico.

Listen to episode 20 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.

Music by Chylez Productions. 

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #19 – Uncovering the UK's Machinations in Latin America w/ John McEvoy

24 February 2023

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.

Listen to episode 19 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #18 – The Coup against Peru's Pedro Castillo w/ Zoe Alexandra

24 January 2023

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.

Listen to episode 18 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #17 – Latin America at the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup. W/ Ollie Vargas

31 December 2022

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.

Listen to episode 17 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.
Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #16 - Operation Condor Through Film. W/ Rodrigo Vázquez

24 December 2022

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.

Listen to episode 13 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #15 – El Salvador under Nayib Bukele. W/ Tatiana Marroquín

15 October 2022

In episode 15 of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo speaks to Tatiana Marroquín about the record of El Salvador’s 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.

Listen to episode 15 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast 14# – Chile - A New Constitution? W/ Jorge Saavedra

1 September 2022

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 will be put to Chilean voters on 4 September possibly ending magna carta established under the Pinochet dictatorship.

Listen to episode 14 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast 13# – Brazil’s 2022 Presidential Election. W/ Nathália Urban

23 July 2022

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.

Listen to episode 13 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña.

Produced by Pablo Navarrete.
Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 14, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #12 – Colombia’s Presidential Election: An Interview with Carlos Cruz Mosquera (June 2022)

17 June 2022

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.

Listen to episode 12 on Audioboom and a range of other podcast streaming websites.

Presented by Alborada contributing editor Rodrigo Acuña

Produced and edited by Pablo Navarrete

Music by Chylez Productions.

Posted on April 12, 2024 .

Indestructible Podcast #10 – Venezuela: The Cost of Challenging an Empire

23 February 2022

In the tenth episode of Indestructible Podcast, Rodrigo introduces clips from interviews Dan Kovalik, Danny Shaw and Ricardo Vaz, three English-language analysts on Venezuela. They were interviewed for the upcoming documentary Rodrigo is producing with journalist Nicholas Ford titled ‘Venezuela: The Cost of Challenging an Empire’.

Posted on February 23, 2022 and filed under Podcast.

Indestructible Podcast #8 – The UK and Latin America: An Interview with Grace Livingstone 

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.

Listen to episode 8 on Audioboom and range of other podcast streaming websites.

Posted on October 14, 2021 and filed under Podcast.

Indestructible Podcast #7 – CODEPINK’S Struggle for Peace

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.

Listen to episode 7 on Audioboom and range of other podcast streaming websites.

Posted on September 24, 2021 and filed under Podcast.

Indestructible Podcast #6 – Australia’s Role in Chile in the 1970s

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.

Listen to episode 6 on Audioboom and range of other podcast streaming websites.

Posted on August 16, 2021 and filed under Podcast.