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Dateline Latin America: Teargas and Tango

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WHO: Joe Goldman, from The Bronx, New York (ABC, UPI), and Daniel Schweimler (BBC, Al Jazeera), from Hackney, LondonWHAT: Two journalists with more experience covering Latin America for some of the biggest media organisations in the world than you could shake a dozen maracas at WHEN: Every weekWHERE: kitchen table in Buenos Aires WHY: Coz we’ve got tales to tell from decades of covering floods and fires, interviewing presidents and favela dwellers and being tear-gassed by riot police in the capitals and far-flung corners of Latin AmericaHOW: with a recorder and bottle of Malbec

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Episodes

The Life and Death of Pepe Mujica: Uruguay's Finest 23.05.2025 32:21

Rebel fighter, philosophical prisoner, bold, thoughtful and progressive president of his tiny country, Jose 'Pepe' Mujica has died just a week short of his 90th birthday. He made the news. He was the news. Joe and Daniel remember what he was like to interview, why everyone loves Uruguay and Pepe's three-legged dog, Manuela.

Trump and Milei: Buddies from the Same Mould 23.05.2025 41:17

They're both unlikely presidents of their respective countries - Donald Trump of the USA and Argentina's Javier Milei. Which is not all they have in common. Weird hair, misogyny and homophobia top a long list. Daniel and Joe ponder how and why it happened and admit, coz it's not a journalist's place to speculate, that they've no idea what the future might hold - only that it do...