Dear listener, before we begin today's show, we have some news to share, starting next week.

The podcast version of Latino USA is going to be distributed by the My Culturana Network at IHeartMedia.

That is the biggest Latino vertical in the podcast industry with over 250 million monthly

listeners.

So doing this is an opportunity for our stories to reach more listeners than ever at a

critical time in our country's history.

It also makes us more resilient as an independent news nonprofit.

What happens for you, dear listener, is we maintain 100% of our editorial independence

and will be an amazing company which shows we love like Radio Ambulante.

We'll remain in public media.

PRX will continue to distribute Latino USA weekly to public radio stations all over the

U.S. and Canada.

Now, this is important to your listener because moving forward, you will hear more ads in our

podcasts.

But we are going to rely on your support as a listener.

That's really where the vast majority of our funding still comes from, from you and other

non-profit sources. So if you want to support us and get the benefit of listening to these

episodes ad-free, it's easy. Join Futuro Plus. Go to Futuromediagroup.org slash join plus.

That way, you get all our content, you support

Futuro media, you don't get any ads. Easy. Thank you. And as always, no te buyas.

Hello. Hey, Fernando, how are you? I'm well. It's so nice to see you. It's been many, many years.

It has. I know. It's incredible.

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