7am – News headlines and analysis
7:34am – John Gibler is a journalist and author from Mexico, covering the drug war, power and repression. His latest book is I Couldn’t Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa. He discusses the latest on the campaign for justice for the 43 students kidnapped and disappeared in Iguala, Mexico in 2014 – and what is known now about the Mexican Army’s involvement.
8:08am – Professor Myrna Santiago teaches Latin American history at Saint Mary’s College of California, including the history of the Sandinista Revolution. She is currently engaged in doing oral histories to document the history of the 1972 earthquake that contributed to the fall of the Somoza dictatorship, and has been following unfolding events in Nicaragua closely.
8:30am – Florencia Ramirez is an author and trained researcher at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy. Her articles appear in Edible Communities Magazine, the San Jose Mercury News, and her popular blog, eatlesswater.com Her forthcoming book has the same name, Eat Less Water is out later this year.