This week on System Update, guest host Victor Pougy talks to Benjamin Fogel, contributing editor at Jacobin and Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history, about the political turmoil in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, and how it relates to political decisions made in Washington.
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