Each year, hurricane season gets more intense and more disastrous, particularly for folks in the Caribbean. As Puerto Rico is still recovering from the impacts of Hurricane Fiona, people in Cuba and Florida are now dealing with Hurricane Ian’s destructive impact. In this episode we explore the ways our changing climate is disproportionately impacting our gente in the global south, including places to which we owe so much musically and culturally. The ways colonialism is inherently tied up in extractive industries and the attempted decimation of indigenous ways of knowing is central to all of this, and artists across Latin America are reckoning with these themes as they face the effects of all that violence on their tierra.

Featuring music by Bad Bunny, Maná, ChocQuibTown, and Bomba Estéreo.

Show notes: https://bit.ly/3LTcDJK

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