el CafeciTO

For Episode 1, I met with Donald Kingsbury, the vice-president of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and a professor at the Political Science and Latin American Studies departments at UofT. I asked him about becoming an academic and his approach to teaching, and how to find hope and joy in political science and politics. Guest Recommendations - Tasting Menu: Watch: h...

This week, the ElCafeciTO team is joined by Helen Batchoun (UofT) to discuss how this last year at the University of Toronto was for first year students, comparing their experiences to our own when we first joined UofT in a very different world.

This week, the ElCafeciTO team is joined by Helen Batchoun (UofT) and Juanita Arango (UofT) to talk about Colombia and Argentina, two countries in Latin America that have recently decriminalised abortion. The team also looks at the case of Ecuador and Chile, two countries that have recently attempted to decriminalise abortion.

This week, the ElCafeciTO team is joined by Juanita Arango (UofT) and Helen Batchoun (UofT) to discuss International Women's Day commemorations in Toronto and Latin America.

This week, the El CafeciTO team is once again joined by Anna Carneiro (UofT) and Andrea Caceres (UofT) to continue the discussion of recent environmental disasters in Latin America. In this second part of the episode, we analyse the Mariana and Brumadinho dam collapses in southeastern Brazil as well as the recent deadly rains in Bahia and the seemingly nonstop bushfires/logging in the Amazon rainf...

This week, the El CafeciTO team is joined by Anna Carneiro (UofT) and Andrea Caceres (UofT) to discuss several recent environmental disasters in Latin America. In part one, we discuss the La Pampilla disaster in Peru and the oil spill in the Ecuadorian amazon.

In the very first El CafeciTO episode of 2022, the team (Guilherme, Raque and José Alfredo)gets together to discuss a few of the important elections coming up this year. The presidential elections in Colombia, Chile and Brazil are all under discussion in this very frenetic edition of El CafeciTO!

The El Cafecito team invites Anna Laranjeira (UofT) to discuss gender violence and feminist movements in Latin America in the memory of Las Mariposas.

In this episode of El Cafecito, Raquel, José Alfredo and Guilherme discuss the Pandora Papers and its implications in Latin America. The involvement of Latin American leaders is discussed alongside a debate of whether or not public figures owning offshore accounts should be considered corruption.

In the first episode of the fourth season of El Cafecito, Guilherme Patury, Raquel Serrano and José Alfredo Jimenez discuss the Latin American Heritage Month and the migratory crisis in the southern border of the United States.

The El CafeciTO traces back to their semester experiences in the podcast and reflects about recent Latin American politics, especially the place of youth and students in it. We are happy for your constant engagement! El CafeciTO will pause for the Summer vacation and returns during the next semester. Viva la America Latina!

Continuing our SPA258 audiobook sessions, Mariela Sol (UofT) reads "Proverbios morales" Sem Tob, "Muero porque no muero” Santa Teresa de Ávila, "Lo Fatal" Rubén Darío and "La Celestina" Fernando de Rojas.

The El CafeciTO team gets together to talk about the current state of the Latin American Left following the news that Lula can run for presidency in Brazil in 2022. The podcasters analyze the situations of Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, and many other countries in the region.

El CafeciTO, in partnership with the SPA258 course at the University of Toronto, launches its audiobook series on classic Spanish literature. This episode features Raquel Serrano reading "El cantar de mio cid", "Las Siete Partidas", "Nocturno" and "El Hijo".

In this especial episode celebrating the International Women's day, El CafeciTO is hosted by Raquel Serrano with participations by Andrea Caceres (UofT), Anna Laranjeira (UofT), Ana Acosta (UofT) and Danae Penichet (UofT). They talk about their relations as women with the Latino community in Toronto and discuss the different forms of feminism they've encountered.

The El CafeciTO team gets together to talk about the traditions of carnaval in their home countries and discuss current issues around the celebration.

The El CafeciTO team gets together with Maria Teran (UBC) and Steve Parra Avila (UofT) to talk about the 2021 presidential elections in Ecuador.

Maria José Moreno (UofT) reads "Día Domingo" by Mario Vargas Llosa, "Chac Mool" by Carlos Fuentes, and "El huésped" by Amparo Dávila;

Alexandre Gouveia (UofT) reads "O Alienista" by Machado de Assis.

The El CafeciTO team invites Anna Laranjeira (UofT) to discuss President Jair Bolsonaro's policies during the COVID pandemic.

Isai Flores (UofT) reads Y todos miramos al cielo ("We all looked up") by Tommy Wallach.

The El CafeciTO team gets together to talk about the presidential crisis in Bolivia that started in October 2019 with the removal of Evo Morales from office.

In this episode of our audiobook series, UofT student Andrea Caceres reads "Los Cachorros" by Mario Vargas Llosa.

The El CafeciTO team invites Alex Bercik (UofT) to talk about the relevance and biography of Diego Armando Maradona, one of the most famous football players from Latin America.

In this episode of our audiobook, Raquel Serrano (UofT) reads the short story "Things we lost in the fire" by Mariana Enriquez.