Hi, this is Alana Casanova Burgess.

You might know me, or at least my name, from the On the Media credits at the end of the show every week.

Well, for the last few months, I've actually been working with a crew of Puerto Rican reporters and producers on a new series from WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios.

It's called La Brega. And in a lot of ways, it's a response to

conversations you've heard on On the Media about how certain places and certain people get

covered in the mainstream press. We wanted to do journalism about Puerto Rico, made by Puerto

Ricans, and tell stories that you're not hearing anywhere else.

Anyway, we're putting this episode of La Brega down the on-the-media feed,

but you can listen to the whole seven-part series in either English or Spanish,

or you can listen to each episode in both languages.

We did make each one twice by finding La Brega on your podcast platform of choice.

That's La Brega, L-A-S-B-R-E-G-A.

Or you can go to labregapodcast.org.

And thanks. Not long ago. Not long ago, Chris Gregoryandino, went to an office in San Juan.

They were there to visit a stack of paper.

Well, more than paper, it's a stack of folders, really, that was so heavy that it landed with a thud on the table.

This is a carpetta. It. This is a carpetta.

It just means folder in Spanish, but in Puerto Rico, its meaning has a lot more weight.

So yeah, so this is, it's like a, you know, just a normal, like office manila folder with some pages in it, some handwritten notes.

But in here is a page that has basically a list of codes on the left

and a list of names on the right.

And it's the list of agents, informants, and other collaborators of the police.

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