#26: Puerto Rico, You Lovely Island
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week, tennis player Monica Puig won Puerto Rico’s first ever gold medal—which has led many to wonder, why does Puerto Rico have its own Olympians, if it’s part of the US?
In short: it’s complicated.Â
Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion about the almost unbelievably complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the US with guests Sandra Lilley, Managing Editor of NBC Latino, Natascha Otero, a leader of South Florida’s chapter of the National Puerto Rican Agenda, and Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor for the Futuro Media Group.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my god sweetie. That's so Puerto Rican. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm not. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm not. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm not. |
| 0:06.0 | We've got to start the show like that. |
| 0:10.0 | U-N-The-Tig This is a podcast about politics and the diverse perspectives of a dynamic and changing America. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm your host, Marianne Hosa, and with me in our Harlem studio, Yay Sandra Lili, managing editor of NBC Latino, |
| 0:26.6 | you're back. |
| 0:27.4 | Thank you so much for being back with us. |
| 0:29.2 | I love being here. |
| 0:30.3 | And joining us from Miami is Natasha Otero. |
| 0:33.0 | She is one of the leaders of South Florida's chapter of the National Puerto Rican Agenda. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey, Natasha. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:39.0 | And here in our Harlem studios, yes. |
| 0:41.0 | Cuyo Ricardo Barella, political editor for the Futura media group hulio not traveling I'm so |
| 0:46.8 | psyched to be back in Harlem right it's great to be back all right so of course everybody |
| 0:51.3 | knows that this week tennis player Monicap we won Puerto Rico's first |
| 0:55.5 | ever gold medal. |
| 0:56.8 | This is huge but of course you might be wondering why does Puerto Rico have its own |
| 1:02.3 | Olympians if it's in fact part of the United States? |
| 1:05.0 | In short, it's complicated, as are a whole lot of things when it comes to Puerto Rico. |
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