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This week we are joined by our eyes and ears in Puerto Rico journalist Carlos Berrios Polanco to discuss the colony's role in The US kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and further imperial encroachment in the region. We also discuss life in the first year under the governorship of pathetic Trump sycophant Jenniffer Gonzalez and her facilitation of ICE raids in Puerto Rico. Also, Greenland.

Don't call it a comeback. We are joined by friend of the show and Drop Site News contributor Jose Luis Granados Ceja to help us break down and make sense of the kidnapping of the President of The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. What lead to this, the ramifications and the reverberations.

After a few weeks off, Austin G is back to bring you a solo interview pod with previous guest and union organizer Luisa Martinez @LuisaKnuckles. Austin and Luisa discuss an exciting new project of theirs within the Democratic Socialists of America as they officially launch the 21st Century Socialism Caucus, a new caucus within DSA for members who believe in furthering the vision of 21st Century Socialism. To get involved check them out on twitter and youtube @21CSocialism and check out their Programa de Lucha.

The whole gang is back together to discuss the Milei's crypto rug pull and the general state of the Right Wing order across the world particularly in Ecuador in light of their forthcoming election and in Puerto Rico where it is comprador and patronage business as usual. We also talk about Bad Bunny by the way.

As each day seems to come with a new threat from Donal Tron and the Yanquis de Mierda against Latin America we are happy to bring you all this collab with José Luis Granados Ceja of Soberania the Mexican Politics Podcast. José Luis joins us in digesting the initial wave of executive orders from Donald Trump in regards to Mexico and what the reaction and response has looked like south of the border. He helps us break down just how popular President Claudia Sheinbaum is and how her responses to Trump have been received in Mexico. We talk specifics regarding migratory policy in Mexico under AMLO and now under Sheinbaum as well as the potential effects of the designation of Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. We also find the time to touch upon a few different topics around Latin America as the effects of the Donald Trump presidency covers the entire region. Thank you for listening and lastly, if you support our mission in providing reliable English-language analysis on Latin American affairs consider showing your solidarity at Patreon.com/macheteymate.

In our latest episode we sit down with returning guest and former Independence Party candidate for San Juan city council, Paul Figueroa. Paul helped run the House District 4 campaign of Adriana Gutierrez Colon, one of the closest house races of the entire election cycle. In addition to going over the latest updates from the recount/general scrutiny, Paul discusses with us his perspective on the ground both before and after Election Day and manages to bring us his trademark insight as well as a healthy dose of optimism to get us believing again for 2028. If you want to follow more of Paul and his work you can find him on social media @lapaulitica.

In our latest episode, we continue our 2024 Puerto Rico Election coverage as we sit down with former Independence Party candidate for Naguabo municipal council, Jeremy Rivera Torres. We discuss the continued fallout and aftermath of the (still not totally decided) election with Jeremy and the potential political landscape moving forward. Jeremy gives us his perspective from the ground on how the elections in Puerto Rico were conducted and how La Alianza can learn from this experience moving forward. If you want to follow more of Jeremy and his work you can find him on social media @jeremyrtorres.

PUERTO RICO POST-ELECTION DEBRIEF! Join us as we discuss and analyze the results of the momentous and consequential election in Puerto Rico that saw what was thought to be impossible: an Independentist challenging the Comprador duopoly with a real chance of winning. We also talk about next steps for the movement and a little bit about the smaller election in the Metropole.

Leroy, T and Austin reunite to cover some of the most recent events relating to the upcoming elections in Puerto Rico and the United States. We discuss the insurgent candidacy of Juan Dalmau and la Alianza as well as what brought Puerto Rico to the brink of a political earthquake. We make our final predictions on what exactly we expect to happen in Puerto Rico as well as what the other possible outcomes may look like. If you support what we do in providing English-language content on Puerto Rican and Latin American politics subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/macheteymate.

The boys are all together to recap, analyze, discuss, pontificate, fanboy the recent Gubernatorial debate in Puerto Rico ahead of what will go down as a cataclysmic paradigm in Puerto Rico politics and reality.

After a few months off, Austin G is back to bring you a solo interview pod with previous guest and union organizer Luisa Martinez. Luisa was able to attend Venezuela's recent presidential election in person as an election observer on behalf of the Democratic Socialists of America International Committee (dsaic.org) and gives us her on the ground perspective of how the situation unfolded. Austin and Luisa go back and forth on some of the particulars of Venezuelan society, what it all means for socialists in the United States, as well as what brought us to this point and what we can look forward to in the future. You can find more of Luisa and her work on her twitter @LuisaKnuckles. If you support our mission in providing reliable English-language analysis on Latin American affairs consider showing your solidarity at Patreon.com/macheteymate.

In this edition of MyM, we do a bit of a debrief on the recent elections in Mexico and the primaries of the comprador Pro-Statehood PNP in Puerto Rico. Austin breaks down his experience as an election observer in Mexico giving us his analysis of the ramifications of Claudia Sheinbaum's victory. Hilarity and giggling ensues as we discuss the Looney Tunes show that were these primaries in Puerto Rico and analyze what might be the fall out for the PNP and Puerto Rico in general.

After a typical hiatus, MyM is back with a Current Events episode. In this one, we preview the November elections in Puerto Rico. We dive a bit deeper into the comprador Statehood party's impending primary pitting incumbent Pedro Pierluisi, the Ted Cruz of Chuck Schumers, against Resident Commissioner and MAGA enthusiast Jenniffer Gonzalez which may very well dictate the success of the Independentist lead Left alliance.

LeRoy, T, and friend of the show Rev are back together to discuss one thing: the growing global solidarity movement for Palestine. Rev and LeRoy discuss what they've been a part of and what they've been seeing down in Australia while T brings a US perspective. We discuss the various players and dynamics involved day in and day out in this swelling solidarity movement: from 100s of Anti-Zionist Jewish comrades, to children leading chants at rallies, to Longshoremen walking off the job.

After an extended hiatus, LeRoy and T are joined by friend of the show Rev to discuss and breakdown the recent failed Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum and the ongoing Palestinian genocide. Both topics are inextricably linked through the history of settler-colonial violence. We navigate the background and fallout of the failed referendum and the already apparent implications, discussing the ineptitude of liberal democracy. We end with a discussion of Palestine specifically but settler-colonialism and imperialism generally: past, present, and future.