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Flor de Lava – Song of the Day

Today’s featured band is Flor de Lava, a group of female singer/songwriters from Colombia, with the song “El Velo se cayó” (2024).

The regimes in Russia, Venezuela & Nicaragua share a repressive strategy that includes the assassination of opponents beyond their borders.

The ruling blocks Biden’s initiative which would have offered legal status to half a million spouses and stepchildren of US citizens.

“My arbitrary detention exposed better than ever the corrupt dictatorship in Guatemala, something we had been trying to show for 30 years.”

Today’s featured artist is Angela Aguilar from Mexico with the song “La Llorona” from her album “Primera Soy Mexicana” (2018).

This past summer both Trump and Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro stated that if they lose their respective elections there would be a bloodbath.

Anielle Franco: “Since the beginning, we said we would not stop until justice was made. It was a lot of nights, days, years…”

Today’s featured band is Los Mirlos from Peru with the song “La Danza de Los Mirlos, Cumbia de Los Pajaritos”, off “Cumbia Amazónica” (2014).

This is the third presidential race in a row with the border as the central villain. Endless campaign ads come across like horror movies…

Forests that appear intact but have lost much of their wildlife, affecting ecological processes like pollination and seed dispersal…