You're going to go. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Daczynski

Culture Editor here at the Federalist as always you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.

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and of course to the premium version of our website as well. I'm joined today by

Juan David Rojas who is a columnist for Compact covering the Iberian Peninsula

and Latin America. He's such a fascinating writer and as I just learned before we started taping has a

fascinating background. So first of all, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me on Emily. Yeah, of course.

Now, I usually ask people when it's their first time to give us a little bit of background on their

career and all of that, but as I just mentioned, I've learned in the past like five minutes that your background is

exceptionally interesting given what you cover for compact I'll just say right up here at the

top I think Latin America is a huge blind spot for conservative media, right at our doorstep.

We were talking earlier about how even the sort of nationalist right has a lot of reasons

to dive deeply into the daily news in Latin America, not just because of what

nationalism, surging nationalism looks like in other countries, but also because of how it affects

our own country.

And the border is one part of a massive puzzle.

So just start by telling us a little bit

about your background.

You've had experiences that are exceptionally relevant that give you way more insight and perspective

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