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Tito Puente – Song of the Day

Today we feature US band leader Tito Puente of Puerto Rican heritage with the TropiJazz All Stars, performing “Five Beat Mambo” (1998).

“Get ready to leave, especially if you’re criminals,” threatened the Republican candidate for the US presidency.

Family members continue to demand justice and accountability from the members of Mexico’s armed forces and police.

The stakes are high. According to a recent report by Global Witness, 196 land and environmental defenders were murdered in 2023

It’s been over 40 years since Hungarian-American attorney Reed Brody, known as the “dictator hunter,” first began his international career.

Today we feature the band Juaneco y su combo from Peru with the song “Vacilando con Ayahuasca” (2017).

President Gabriel Boric: “I refuse to choose between Hamas’s terrorism or the massacre and genocidal behavior of Netanyahu’s Israel…”

The National Hurricane Center in Miami has declared a tropical storm warning for Pinar del Río, Artemisa and the Isle of Youth.

Today’s featured band is Monsieur Periné from Colombia with the song “Encanto Tropical”, recorded in Providencia, Colombia (2019).

The ex-combatant was released and exiled to Guatemala along with 134 political prisoners after spending over a year in illegal detention.