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Welcome to Tam Marindo podcast.

Hosted by me, Brenda Gonzalez, a fitness coach, political nerd, and nonprofit capacity

builder.

And me, Delsey Sandoval, a Guatemalan American licensed therapist and passionate creativity advocate.

Together, we're here to uplift our community through powerful conversations with changemakers,

creatives, and healers.

Each week on the pod, we talk politics, culture, and personal development.

Listeners called Tamarino, the advocacy and self-love podcast.

Let's start the show.

Hello, Tamarindo listeners. Hi, Brenda. We're here recording on March 19th. I hope you all are doing well. We wanted to start

off by just taking a moment at the top of the episode to acknowledge some heavy news this week involving

Cesar Chavez and reflections that have also included Dolores Werta, who as you all know

is a guest on the show. We're not going to go in it too deeply because I don't think we're here

to report the news, but I do think that it's important for us, you know, not to just move past it, right?

And so Brenda, I'd like to start with you if you want to tell me a little bit about your reaction

to this news.

Yes, I think what I found really, like, whoa, this is serious, was knowing when UFW, like even before Dolores Werta, even before the New York Times reporting, the United Farm Workers issued a statement that said there's some serious allegations, serious enough that we're canceling our Cesar Chavez festivities and setting aside resources to support victims.

So that was already the first sign that, okay, that something very serious is coming down.

And then the next day, I see Dolores Puerta from her official Instagram account,

sharing with the world, the audience is a secret that she had kept

for over 60 years, which is that she had been sexually assaulted, coerced into sex and raped

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