Summary: This week, the second anniversary of Latin Pulse has the program looking at a wide variety of topics. Listen in and you can hear discussion of telenovelas, politics, diplomacy, economics, censorship, human rights, and corruption. The program also covers plenty of geographic territory, including discussion of Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Chile. The program includes out-takes from previous programs and selections from the favorite interviews of the audience. The news segment of the program covers the postponement this week of the U.S.-Brazil summit, due to revelations of U.S. spying on Brazil's president and on the state oil monopoly Petrobras. The program includes interviews with: Carolina Acosta-Alzuru of the University of Georgia; Dan Hellinger of Webster University; Bill LeoGrande of American University; Mark Schneider of the International Crisis Group; Francisco Robles Rivera of Universidad Nacional and Universidad de Costa Rica; Manuel Suarez-Mier of American University; Adriana Beltran of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA); and Rev. Joe Eldridge of American University. Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell and Associate Producer: Megan Ekhaml. (To download or stream this podcast, click here.) (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 28 MB.) podcast news Latin America Venezuela Hugo Chavez Nicolas Maduro Chile coup OAS elections politics corruption crime Augusto Pinochet economics Michelle Bachelet human rights United States justice Dilma Rousseff Brazil espionage telenovelas culture media censorship China oil Russia business OPEC Cuba CELAC Barack Obama Edward Snowden Costa Rica John Kerry imperialism Mexico Honduras assassination torture
