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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Roberto Lovato on Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Growing up Salvadoran-American in The Mission, fighting with the FMLN in El Salvador, making sense of MS-13, weaving back together the pieces of a transnational history severed by borders and violence. Lovato retells El Salvador and US history through his family's story.
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1:59.0 | In Unforgetting, a memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. |
2:05.0 | Roberto Lovato tells the history of El Salvador through the history of his family. |
2:10.4 | Lovato weaves the stories of reactionary massacres and revolutionary struggles in the 1930s and 80s |
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