I was convinced I was going to be a famous singer, actress.

I started writing songs, and my parents said, like, what the hell is that?

So I went to school, and I studied and became a lawyer.

And I never did I think that I was going to become famous because of lawy.

But there it happened.

Latino.

From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA.

I'm Maria Inojosa.

Today, La Doctora Anna Maria Polo, the host of the long-running

court TV show, Casso Serrado. She joins me to talk about trauma, intimacy, queer rights, and her

illusions.

Like her TV personality, Dr. Anna Maria Polo's birth year was dramatic.

She was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1959, just a few months after a scruffy Fidel Castro

and his companion toppled dictator, Fulgencio Batista.

The revolution no's debilita front of the attack. and his companions' topled dictator, Fulgencio Batista.

Polos family decided to flee Cuba for Miami a couple of years after the Cuban Revolution,

and then they migrated to another Caribbean island, Puerto Rico,

where Polo spent her childhood in teen years. It was there, as a Catholic schoolgirl, that

she discovered two passions that would one day converge, justice and entertainment.

Polo wanted to pursue a career in music and acting, but when her mom said, hell no, she obeyed.

Back in Miami, she studied political science and eventually earned a PhD in law, which means that's right. She really is a doctora.

Polo had been practicing family law for over 20 years in Miami when she was hired to host a new

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