Historias Unknown Carmen & Cristina
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Obscure Latin American history, capitalism and corruption. Each week, your hosts, Carmen and Cristina, will tell each other a story about Latino/Latine history, capitalism or corruption and sometimes all three. Episodes every Thursday.
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Nuño Beltran de Guzman: Behind the Bastardos
When it comes to the Spanish Conquistadors, it’s not incorrect to say they were pretty terrible people. But out of all of them, one name stands out, he also happens to be the founder of Guadalajara, Jalisco, among other towns in the Northwest of Mexico. Nuño Beltran de Guzman was called "the most depraved man to set foot in New Spain".
In this episode, Cristina tells Carmen about Nuño Beltran de Guzman, in a new series they are calling "Behind the Bastardos", where they talk about some of the worst people in Latin American history.
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Sources:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%C3%B1o_de_Guzm%C3%A1n
https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/11471/nuno-beltran-de-guzman
https://www.mexconnect.com/articles/658-bloody-guzman/
https://theguadalajarareporter.net/index.php/columns/columns/allyn-hunt/50000-beltran-de-guzman-an-unrelenting-application-of-evil-a-cruel-tangle-of-anti-church-anti-cortez-anti-indian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangaxuan_II
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Student Movements in Latin America
In light of the student protests calling for divestments from Israel and a ceasefire in US schools, Carmen tells Cristina about the student movements from the 1920s to the 1950s in Colombia and the student movement from 1918 in Argentina that led to university reform.
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Sources:
https://ageofrevolutions.com/2020/10/26/la-esperanza-de-america-latina-the-ongoing-student-revolution-in-colombia/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6fIgwhJHxM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D
https://everytownsupportfund.org/history-of-divestment-on-college-campuses/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Rojas_Pinilla
https://www.ainfos.ca/13/jun/ainfos00192.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1954/06/10/archives/15-die-in-studentarmy-strife-in-bogota-colombian-regime-puts-tight.html
https://www.puees.unam.mx/sapa/dwnf/2/1.Ordorika-Imanol_2021_StudentMovementsAndPoliticsInLatinAmerica.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordobazo#:~:text=The%20Cordobazo%20was%20a%20civil,the%20global%20protests%20of%201968.
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Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora
Teresa Urrea was a curandera, folk saint, feminist and revolutionary. A woman ahead of her time. She came to be known as Santa Teresa or La Santa de Cabora. And in more recent times, the Joan of Arc of Mexico.
In this episode, Cristina tells Carmen about the life of Teresa Urrea.
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Sources:
Ringside to a Revolution by David Dorado Romo
Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Urrea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaqui_Uprising
https://www.latinousa.org/2021/11/05/teresaurrea/
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Victor Jara
Victor Jara was a popular singer in Chile, famous for his folk songs that focused on politics, human rights, and social justice. This, along with aligning himself with Allende, made him a target for the Chilean right-wing, and he was captured and killed by the Pinochet regime after the US backed coup against Allende. Following Victor Jara’s assassination, his family fought a decades-long battle for justice, which continues to this day.
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Sources
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-02-28/the-last-days-of-victor-jara-chiles-political-poet-killed-by-the-pinochet-dictatorship.html
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/04/17/inenglish/1429274863_181405.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/victor-jara-chile-murder-barrientos/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/18/us/victor-jara.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Jara
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-20897545
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/03/chile-victor-jara-execution-solider-extradited-us-trial
https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/jara-v-barrientos/
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A Brief History of Chile: The End of the Pinochet Regime
In October 1998, General Augusto Pinochet was arrested for crimes of genocide and terrorism. He spent months in house arrest in England, but 15 months after his arrest, he was declared not fit to stand trial. Upon his return to Chile, he was charged for his role in the Caravan of Death. He faced more charges over the next 5 years, but died of a heart attack in 2006. At the time of his death, he faced 300 criminal charges. He never spent a day in jail.
On this episode of Historias Unknown, Cristina tells Carmen what led up to the end of the Pinochet regime and what came after.
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Sources
A Nation Of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet by Pamela Constable & Arturo Valenzuela
The Pinochet FIle by Peter Kornbluh
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/11/chile-marks-50-years-since-pinochets-brutal-coup
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/chile-coup-democracy-1988-pinochet/675275/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet
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A Brief History of Chile: The Caravan of Death and DINA
In the aftermath of the Pinochet coup, Chileans faced unimaginable horrors under the military dictatorship. The Caravan of Death: Initiated by Pinochet, this series of massacres between September 30th and October 22nd, 1973, led to the deaths of at least 97 people. Victims were tortured, stabbed, and shot, their bodies disposed of in unmarked graves or dumped into the ocean. DINA's Reign of Terror: The National Intelligence Directorate, DINA, became a powerful and ruthless secret police force, tasked with eradicating Marxism. Their tactics included infiltration, torture, and assassination, targeting leftist movements and their sympathizers both domestically and internationally.
In this episode, Cristina tells Carmen what followed after Pinochet's rise to power. Including the human rights violations, prison camps, caravan of death and DINA. Stay tuned for the next episode as we explore the downfall of Pinochet's regime.
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Music Credit: Hustlin (Instrumental) by Neffex
Sources
A Nation Of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet by Pamela Constable & Arturo Valenzuela
The Pinochet FIle by Peter Kornbluh
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This podcast deserves so much recognition. I learned a lot about Latin America that I had no idea about. They are very true to the title of Historias Unknown for sure! They also cite all their sources so I can look into any of these topics in more detail. I also want to mention that I am from El Paso Texas and I reside in San Diego right now so I’ve learned very important things that have happened in both of these places. I am also Mexican and Puerto Rican so I think it was really important to hear some of the things that have been swept under the rug in history. To Cristina and Carmen, I really hope you all know that you are doing very important work and you are making a big impact because you have definitely done that for me. I love the banter and I love the relationship you guys have with each other. Please keep this podcast going! I am hooked.