Humanity Has No Border on La Frontera

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We bring you three stories from the U.S.-Mexico border: an unlikely music festival, musician/activist La Muna, and a bullfighting training center in Texas.

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0:00.0	Does the idea of listening to political news freak you out?
0:03.6	Well, don't sweat it.
0:04.6	The NPR Politics Podcast makes politics a breeze.
0:08.2	Every episode will break down the day's headlines into totally normal language
0:12.5	and make sure that you walk away understanding what the day's news might mean for you.
0:17.4	Take a deep breath and give politics another chance with the NPR Politics Podcast,
0:22.3	available wherever you get your podcasts. From NPR music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras. This week we're going to visit the U.S.-Mexico border.
0:44.0	It stretches 1,954 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
0:50.7	The intersection of humanity along that imaginary line is very real.
0:56.2	And beyond the headlines are stories of people who live along the border,
1:00.3	who have arrived there from distant lands and people,
1:02.8	and people who live a life with one foot on either side.
1:05.8	We're going to hear three stories this week that will hopefully put the border in a different light.
1:12.3	A story about a festival of music that you would not expect from the border. And we're going to hear from a musician
1:16.6	from Columbia who has found a place for herself and her music on the southern side of the line.
1:22.1	And a story about bullfighting, but not in the way you think. First up, that bullfighting story.
1:28.3	We're going to meet Fred Rank.
1:30.3	He is a 74-year-old former amateur bullfighter who runs a bull ranch called La Cerencia, just north of McAllen,
1:38.3	Texas, which is about 10 miles from the border.
1:40.3	He runs a bullfighting school.
1:42.3	It's one of the few bullfighting schools that teaches what one bullfighter calls 20 minutes of absolute truth to women as well as men.
1:51.0	This interview is produced by Katie Hayes-Luc, a photojournalist who was working on a book about bullfighting.
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