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The Red Nation Podcast

Another left wave in Latin America? w/ Camila Escalante

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

Society & Culture, History

4.8943 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Camila Escalante talks about the future of the left in Latin America, following the historic Bolivian elections. @KawsachunNews

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0:00.0

The I'm going to Thank you so much, Camila for joining us.

0:35.0

I've been following your work for several years now and you're my favorite Twitter

0:40.0

account, but can you just start by introducing yourself and where you're calling from?

0:45.9

Yeah, sure. So thank you so much for having me and I'm flattered that you enjoy my social video.

0:53.4

Yeah, I'm in the tropical of Cocha Bamba which is you know where Evo Morales first kind of

0:58.9

became a popular union leader and that's where he kind of launched movement towards

1:04.8

socialism and it's a really important base for the movement party and of course my

1:09.4

colleague Ali Vargas who's here with me now not not next to me, but he lives in a neighboring town.

1:15.2

We're in Vietunari, which is kind of a town that has some tourism, some, like a couple of amenities,

1:21.9

and it was just kind of a nice place for me to take a break because I've been following things in the city and the Paz and Al alto.

1:29.0

I was also on a campaign trail in Urudo and the city of Cocha Bamba with the

1:35.0

President-elect at the time presidential candidate Louis Sarsi for some period of the

1:40.8

campaign and yeah so I'm of course a producer, presenter with Telster English and also with Kauschuan News.

1:49.1

And I'm here serving as a correspondent for Tell us

1:54.0

or English on a temporary basis.

1:56.0

Cool.

1:57.0

Yeah, I think Ali is our most frequent returning

2:01.0

guests on the podcast. We've interviewed him.

2:04.1

Yeah, yeah, he's been on like three times

2:07.2

and, you know, it's been a while,

2:09.8

it's been, we've been wanting to have you on

2:12.2

for quite some time as well, so we're happy that you joined us. I have some just like personal questions for you. If that's okay, like if you can tell us like how you got into journalism and how you know like you know did you did you did you grow up in Latin America or in the

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