An interview I did with Indus News (Pakistan) 14/11/19 regarding the use of pellet guns against protesters in Kashmir. I speak at the 35:27 minute when the attention of the program turns towards protests in Chile. Click here to view the interview.
Chile's Youth Challenge Economic Inequality, Resist Authoritarian Traditions
By Faizan Hashmi
MOSCOW UrduPoint News / Sputnik
22 October 2019
On her way to an interview for a school project, Francisca Hale, a 21-year-old journalism major university student, walked to the Plaza de Maipu subway station in Santiago, Chile at around 5 p.m. on Friday. To her surprise, the station was shut down by local authorities as a group of police officers guarded the entrances.
What is America's stake in the unfolding Venezuelan protests?
The Wire
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Produced by Parashar Das
Tensions rise between the US and Venezuelan governments as three Venezuelan Ambassadors were expelled today. But does the US have an interest in the outcome of the ongoing protests in Venezuela? South American expert Dr Rodrigo Acuna comments on Western coverage of the protests.
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Associate Lecturer of International Studies at Macquarie University Dr Rodrigo Acuña
Colombian Government and the FARC rebels begin to talk peace
The Wire
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Produced by Christopher Testa
After more than 40 years of turmoil, the Colombian Government and the country’s rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, will open peace talks today in what many believe could be a successful attempt to end the armed conflict.
Both parties have recently arrived in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, where peace talks will commence. Christopher Testa spoke to Latin American political analyst Rodrigo Acuña ahead of the opening of peace talks.
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Rodrigo Acuña, Latin American political analyst.
Hugo Chavez, the unlikely president
Interview with Rodrigo Acuña on the ABC's Radio National Rear Vision program 7 October 2012. Click here to listen to the program. Full transcript below as published on the ABC.
Sunday 7 October 2012 12:05PM
It was hard to find a more polarising figure than the former President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Hollywood types like Sean Penn and Oliver Stone were proud to be his friends, and yet others accused him of being more of a threat to the United States than Castro or Bin Laden ever were. Within Venezuela also, he aroused strong feelings - his humble beginnings and welfare spending won him loyalty from the poor, but others were disturbed by the increasingly authoritarian nature of his government. Now he has died, aged 58. From the Rear Vision archive, we look at his surprising rise to the top and his turbulent decade in power.
Everyone has an opinion about Chavez. To his detractors he is becoming increasingly autocratic, even messianic; for many others it’s either untrue or irrelevant beside the enormous benefits he has brought to the country and their lives. One thing everyone agrees on is that he’s different. While all previous presidents came from the same elite class, he didn’t.
Covering the Honduran coup
Covering the Honduran coup
31 July 2009
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post program interview with Rodrigo Acuña. Click here to view the program.
Media coverage of the rescue of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt
Media coverage of the rescue of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt
5 September 2008
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post program interview with Rodrigo Acuña. Click here to view the program.