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Democracy Now! 2025-04-23 Wednesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Headlines for April 23, 2025; “America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:20.9

Elon Musk, keep your hands off of Social Security.

0:27.2

Martin O'Malley, the former head of the Social Security Administration,

0:32.2

issued a dire warning that Social Security could collapse due to sweeping cuts by the Trump administration.

0:39.7

O'Malley will join us to talk about why he fears millions of Social Security recipients could soon lose their benefits or rather see them interrupted.

0:51.3

Then to Pulitzer Prize winning historian and Yale Professor Greg Brandon,

0:55.9

author of the new book, America, America, a new history of the new world.

1:02.0

Latin America is famous for its torture, for its dictatorships, its death squads,

1:06.6

its disappearances, but alongside that history runs a deep, deep current of humanism, of a kind of

1:14.2

commitment to universal democracy. That's quite amazing. And you think about it, what do you

1:19.5

think about the social movements that just keep fighting? You know, if democracy is measured by

1:25.4

courage, I'd say that Latin America might be the most democratic region in the world today.

1:30.6

We'll speak with Professor Grandin about his book,

1:34.1

the U.S. sending immigrants to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador,

1:39.5

the death of the first Latin American pope, and more.

1:43.5

All that and more coming up.

1:49.1

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report.

1:54.0

I'm Amy Goodman.

1:55.3

In Gaza, at least 10 Palestinians were killed, including a child after an Israeli strike sparked a fire to schools,

2:02.1

sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

2:04.9

They're among 24 Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza since dawn.

2:10.5

Separately, civil defense workers in northern Gaza report Israeli warplanes have blown up nine bulldozers being used in humanitarian operations.

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