Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard has a conversation with Dr. Alejandro Bendaña and Julio Martinez Ellsberg on the repression of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's administration along with other issues facing the region. Dr. Alejandro Bendaña is a Nicaraguan historian. During the first Sandinista Government between the years of 1979 and 1990, he served as Ambassador to the UN and Secretary General to the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry.
Julio Martinez Ellsberg is co-coordinator of the International Relations Commission for the Nicaraguan Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations (Articulación de Movimientos Sociales y Organizaciones de Sociedad Civil de Nicaragua) as well as part of the support group to one of Nicaragua's main student movements, the Coordinadora Universitaria por la Democracia y la Justicia.
Today, Phillip Lopate will join us for an “Underread Book Club” discussion of Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in1877, Turgenev...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Alison Klayman and producer Marie Therese Guirgis discuss their experience making “The Brink” and why they feel it...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, a lively discussion with author Diana Senechal on why words matter. It’s hard to deny that the English...