Latin Pulse 07/18/13

Latin Pulse looks forward this week to the upcoming trip to Brazil by Pope Francis. The discussion revolves around the symbolic importance of this trip as the first pope from Latin America returns to the region for his first international trip as pope. The program discusses the competition between Catholicism and evangelical Protestants in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. The program also discusses the various initiatives Pope Francis has undertaken this year. The news segment covers the discovery this week of a North Korean freighter, which unsuccessfully tried to traverse the Panama Canal, laden with arms from Cuba.