A Fronteriza in Congress

In The Thick

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🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Congresswoman Veronica Escobar is one of the first two Latinas from Texas to win a seat in the U.S. Congress that was sworn in a few weeks ago. In an intimate conversation that took place at her office in Washington D.C., Julio and Rep. Escobar talk about the border community of El Paso, the hospitality that has always characterized its people and what it means for her to be a woman of color in a predominantly white and male Congress.

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0:23.0	Grasias.
0:24.0	Hey, welcome to In The Fick.
0:28.0	This is a podcast about politics, race and culture
0:30.0	from a POC perspective.
0:32.0	I'm Maria Inu Hosa.
0:33.0	And I'm Julio Rica Loberella.
0:35.0	And on November 6th of last year,
0:38.0	we witnessed a day of victories for women.
0:41.0	You know, elections really do have consequences.
0:45.0	Hulio, you went to Washington, D.C. recently, you were so excited to be there, you were like
0:50.7	texting me every moment like, oh my god I talked to this person I talked to
0:53.4	this person and you actually got a chance to speak to one of the new women who are
0:59.1	changing the face of Congress. That is correct buddy I interviewed Congresswoman
1:04.8	woman Béronica Escobar in her congressional office.
1:08.0	So Congresswoman Escobar won the 16th District of Texas by a landslide and that that's a very famous district for people
1:16.0	that have been following Beto or Rourke. It's El Paso and its surroundings that used
1:20.0	to be the district that O'Rourke represented. So I got a chance to spend some time
1:24.4	with the Congresswoman to talk a little bit about what's it like to be part of this new
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