Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón:
La política que nos atraviesa / The Politics That Run Through Us
February, 2026
Live on WLPN LP 105.5 FM, Lumpen Radio
A project of the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN) in partnership with Lumpen Radio.
Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón: La política que nos atraviesa / The Politics That Run Through Us is a bilingual, live radio program co-hosted and co-produced by Jhonathan F. Gómez, Co-Director of CRLN, and Dr. Lydia Saravia, university professor. The show creates a space for multigenerational dialogue, political education, and cultural reflection rooted in Central American thought and the living histories of the diaspora in Chicago.
This program invites listeners into a collective conversation, to think together, to debate, to remember out loud.
Grounded in a critical analysis of capitalism and guided by a horizon of hope, the show affirms that another world is possible when we look south and listen closely to Indigenous communities, social movements, human rights defenders, artists, workers, and elders across Central America and the Americas. Chicago holds these histories in its neighborhoods, churches, kitchens, streets, and organizing spaces. Migration is not only a journey of survival, it is a political archive that demands to be heard.
Through conversations with activists, exiled organizers, community elders, scholars, and cultural workers, the program uncovers narratives often overlooked, buried, or deliberately erased, stories of war and intervention, displacement and resistance, survival and imagination. From Guatemala to Nicaragua, from El Salvador to Honduras, Chicago has become home to generations shaped by struggle and transformation.
The show explores how politics and history run through our everyday lives shaping how we work, move, love, organize, and resist. Even when we are not consciously thinking about how political forces affect us, they shape us. By making those forces visible, we open space for reflection and collective action.
The program airs live once a month, creating a consistent space for collective reflection across Chicago and beyond. Each broadcast moves fluidly between Spanish and English, with room for Spanglish, reflecting the linguistic realities of our communities.
Conversations are intentional and unhurried. Rather than quick commentary, the show prioritizes depth, dialogue, and thoughtful exchange. Co-hosts Jhonathan Gómez and Dr. Lydia Saravia guide discussions that allow space for storytelling, debate, and collective analysis.
At its core, the program explores how social life and political struggle are intertwined, how culture, art, memory, migration, and U.S. foreign policy shape our daily realities. Grounded in a Central American tradition of committed thought and cultural resistance, the show approaches political education as lived and collective rather than abstract.
This program is not simply about commentary. It is about connection. It is about honoring memory as a living force. It is about refusing to forget.
Tune in. Let’s have a conversation, and perhaps, together, arrive at some ideas of how to take action.
Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón