Sin Fronteras: Doctors from Mexico

THURSDAY, JUNE 18
PROGRAM #11176 12:00 PM PT

Sin Fronteras. This is a program of “Sin Fronteras,” a special series that serves audiences in the US and Mexico with breaking news and analysis on major developments affecting Latinos in the US.

Secret US-Iran Pact. According to available information, the United States and Iran have signed a pact, the details of which are unknown, but which includes 300,000 million for Iran, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the lifting of oil sanctions and a ceasefire in Lebanon. What details are known about the agreement? How solid is this pact? What is true and what is questionable in the official information from both sides? Report by José López Zamorano.

DOJ targets Newsom. Federal agents have questioned friends and associates of California governor, Gavin Newsom, and his wife. Newsom accused Trump of using or manipulating the Department of Justice to punish a political enemy. The investigation appears to focus in part on the governor’s wife and her non-profit organisations. What lies behind this investigation? Is it a legitimate legal action or a political abuse of federal power? Report by Araceli Martinez.

The World Cup’s Blemishes. The Iranian national team was not allowed to train on US soil, but had to do so in Mexico instead. The Uruguayan national team was subjected to a security search involving police dogs upon arrival in Miami. The Senegalese team was not allowed to bring a delegation of fans. Many players are facing visa problems. Against this backdrop of political tensions, some are asking: what has become of football diplomacy? Are some national teams being placed at an unfair disadvantage? Report by Diana Montaño.

Doctors from Mexico. 

California is weighing a bill to recruit Mexican physicians as part of a series of recent measures to address the state’s growing health care access crisis. Under a provisional license and local supervision, these professionals would work in regions facing critical shortages, including the San Joaquin Valley, the Inland Empire, and Northern California. What impact is expected on communities? How will the doctors be integrated into local health systems? And what are the challenges for recruitment?

Guest: Assemblymember David Álvarez, California State Assembly (D-80), Sacramento, CA.

Venezuela: Was It All About the Oil? During the past year, the United States framed its actions against Venezuela and the bombing of vessels as a counter-narcotics campaign. But now that U.S. oil companies control the world’s largest oil reserves and sales are reaching billions of dollars, many are asking: Where is all that money going? Was the military intervention and the overthrow of Maduro really all about oil?

Guest: Jose Enrique Arrioja, Managing Editor, Americas Quarterly, New York, NY.

Juneteenth and the Solidarity Between Mexicans and Black Americans. This June 19th, Juneteenth marks the day Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to declare the emancipation of the last enslaved people. Decades earlier, thousands of enslaved African Americans had fled the United States with the help of Mexican abolitionists and Indigenous groups, following an “underground railroad” southward to Mexico, where they were free. In Mexico, residents and authorities took up arms to repel slave hunters. Today, as Mexican workers face the threat of ICE raids, Black civil rights activists are drawing on this shared history of solidarity to rally support for Mexican and Latino immigrants living under the threat of persecution and deportation.

Guest: Dr. María Esther Hammack, Assistant Professor of African American History, Global Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellow for Difficult Subjects K-12 Institute, The Ohio State University-OSU Department of History, Columbus, OH.

Photo: Vitaly Gariev/Unsplash

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