In a combined podcast effort with Historias, the podcast of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Greg talks with Dustin Walcher, Jeff Taffet, Mary Rose Kubal, and Maggie Commins about the Trump administration’s policies toward Latin America. Is there a coherent policy? Is it racist? Etc.

Understanding Latin American Politics: The Podcast

Episode 76: Trump & Latin America

Greg talks with Maggie Commins, who is Shelton Professor of Political Science at Queens University of Charlotte, about her forthcoming article on restrictive immigration policy tone in the southeast, which is coming out in the next issue of The Latin Americanist. It’s some really interesting research based on coding data from the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Episode 75: Restrictive Immigration Policies in the Southeast

In an episode co-produced with the Historias podcast, I talk with my colleagues and good friends Jurgen Buchenau (UNC Charlotte), Greg Crider (Winthrop University), and Steven Hyland (Wingate University) about The Latin Americanist, the peer-reviewed journal owned by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. We talk about all aspects of it, including how excited […]

Episode 74: Inside The Latin Americanist

Greg talks with Jonathan Rosen, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Holy Family University, about his experience serving as an expert witness in immigration cases. Jonathan has served in almost 100 cases, mostly involving Central American migrants fearful of returning. He has some great insights into the whole process and even how people can get […]

Episode 73: Serving as an Expert Witness in Immigration Cases

Greg talks with Christine Wade, Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College and fairly frequent guest on the podcast. The topic is El Salvador, but we also dive into the details of textbook writing, since the new edition of her textbook Understanding Central America: Global Forces and Political Change is out in its 7th […]

Episode 72: Nayib Bukele and Other Things

This is a different kind of episode, as it’s a recording of a talk Greg gave on Latin America, the U.S., and China on February 19, 2020 for the Great Decisions series, sponsored by the Office of International Programs at UNC Charlotte.

Episode 71: Latin America, the U.S., and China

Greg goes it alone in this episode, feeling flashbacks to the 1990s and the continued relevance of civil-military relations in Latin America, to the detriment of democracy. He looks in general at the issue, with reference to El Salvador and Bolivia. Really, what the &%$&?

Episode 70: Latin American Civil-Military Relations: What The &%$*&?

Greg talks with Pablo Rubio, a historian who is currently Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University and Investigador de la Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. He researches the political transition in Chile and U.S.-Chilean relations. We chat about the effects of the transition, constitutional reform, police violence, and even how the right believes Venezuela is […]

Episode 69: Understanding the Chilean Crisis

Greg talks with Miguel Centellas, who is Croft Instructional Associate Professor of Sociology & International Studies at The University of Mississippi. He does research on Bolivian politics and electoral politics and measuring democracy as well. He was on the podcast way back in December 2016. At that point, Evo Morales had decided to run despite […]

Episode 68: Understanding the Bolivian Crisis

Greg talks with Jason Marczak, Director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council. He’s been active in studying Latin America for a long time, previously with the Americas Society and Council for the Americas. Yesterday the council hosted an event “China, Oil, and Venezuela: Myths, Reality, and the Future.” In particular, […]

Episode 67: China & Venezuela

Greg talks with Alan McPherson, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University. He has published a ton on U.S.-Latin American relations, especially as it relates to intervention. In particular, he has a brand new book Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought […]

Episode 66: Chilean Terrorism & the Ghosts of Sheridan Circle

Greg talks with Arturo Lopez-Levy, who is Visiting Assistant Professor of international Relations at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota. He has a Ph.D. in international Studies from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver. He has published articles about Cuba, Latin America, and the U.S. policy towards Latin America. They talk […]

Episode 65: U.S. Policy Toward Cuba

Greg talks with Tim Gill, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC Wilmington. He has published on an array of topics largely involving U.S. global power, Venezuelan politics and human rights, and sociological theory. His work has been published in several academic outlets, including Sociological Forum, Journal of World-Systems Research, Social Currents, The American Sociologist, and Third […]

Episode 64: The U.S. and Juan Guaidó

Greg talks about the Salvadoran presidential election with Christine Wade, Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College. We talk about why Nayib Bukele won, the problems with the two dominant parties, the role of ideology, and much more. We end on a more optimistic note than normal!

Episode 63: Nayib Bukele Wins in El Salvador

Greg talks with Rebecca Hanson, who is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida and affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies. Her current book project Citizen (In)Security, Policing, and Violent Pluralism in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution uses 27 months of ethnographic, interview, and survey data conducted in Venezuela to explain why key tenets of democratic […]

Episode 62: Understanding the Venezuelan Crisis

This podcast looks at the current political situation in Latin America and tries to make sense of it.