How I Made It: Unforgivable

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Until recently, San Francisco Gotera prison in El Salvador was a gang prison, dedicated to holding members of the notorious MS-13 and 18th Street gangs. In 2017, nearly all the inmates inside San Francisco Gotera withdrew from their gangs and converted to Christianity. Evangelical churches came to control every part of the prison, except for one: a small isolation block where nine former gang members have chosen to live, locked in around the clock, because they are openly gay. Latino USA speaks to filmmakers Marlén Viñayo and Carlos Martinez about their award-winning documentary, Unforgivable, which documents life inside that isolation cell.

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0:00.0	I'm Maria Inojosa, and I am Penileira Mides.
0:03.0	And on this new series, we're going to get to know the most powerful Mexican government
0:08.6	official ever to face trial in the US for his alleged ties to the infamous drug lord, El
0:15.4	Chappo.
0:16.4	But this is not your regular narco story.
0:19.3	It's like true crime, myths, telenovela.
0:22.6	This is our new series, USA versus García Luna.
0:27.1	Find it whatever you get your podcast and at futuroinvestigates.org.
0:39.6	I have never thought about making a documentary about gangs because I thought that it was
0:46.0	one of the most studied, known and explained topics about this region.
0:52.6	And I thought that I had nothing new to contribute.
0:56.4	But when Carlos told me about those men inside this prison, I knew that I had something
1:04.7	unique.
1:11.1	From FuturoMedia, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Inojosa.
1:14.8	Today, a new documentary takes us inside a Salvadoran prison.
1:19.4	And into the world of former gang members who are now openly gay.
1:29.1	A few years ago, something unusual and kind of incredible happened in a prison in Western
1:35.4	El Salvador.
1:37.2	The prison was called San Francisco Goteira.
1:40.4	And it was entirely dedicated to holding members of El Salvador's notorious gangs, MS-13
1:47.6	and the 18th Street gang.
1:49.9	Over the past three decades, these gangs have been in an informal war that has turned El
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