RadioWHO #7 | "If you think you know what’s going on in Mexico, you’re misinformed." With questions mounting over the prison escape of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, and the Mexican government’s credibility at an all-time low, speculative theories have flooded the internet, from the believable to the ... not so much.
DC on BFP #42 | Ioan Grillo joins us to discuss Brazil, as protests and clashes with police are spurred by the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup. We go over the allegations of corruption and the program of "pacification": police raids, homes bulldozed, thousands rendered homeless, and many killed, in an effort to "cleanse" host cities for tourists.
Guillermo Jimenez Presents Ioan Grillo
DC on BFP #27 | Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, joins us to discuss the violence in Michoacan and the rise of "autodefensas" (civilian self-defense groups). Also, "narco culture," media and the risk of sensationalism, marijuana legalization, and the drug war economy.
Guillermo Jimenez Presents Ioan Grillo
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by investigative journalist and author of the book El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo. Guillermo and Ioan discuss the ongoing struggle in Mexico with focus on the state of Michoacan and the rise of “autodefensas” (civilian self-defense groups) that some have compared to the Zapatista movement of the 1990s.
