Imperfect Paradise: Return to Mexico: Part 3

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True Crime

4.2 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Unable to return to the U.S., Daniel Zamora struggles to build a life in Mexico, until a trip abroad suddenly upends his perspective. Lorena Ríos reports.

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0:19.0	is Studios Passing the Mantel.
0:21.0	Exploring stories that connect generations and sometimes divide them. I'm Larry Mantel. Exploring stories that connect generations and sometimes divide them.
0:24.2	I'm Larry Mantel.
0:25.2	And I'm Desmond, his son and co-host.
0:27.0	Listen to Passing the Mantel, wherever you listen to Podcasts. This is imperfect paradise the show about hidden worlds and messy
0:48.0	realities. I'm Antonia Sirejido. Last episode, DAnion Samora had to get used to life in Mexico.
0:56.6	Get a call center job, get his own apartment, all while keeping up his cross-border
1:01.7	relationship and waiting for news of his deportation appeal,
1:05.4	only to learn that the appeal was denied and for his relationship with his boyfriend in the U.S.
1:10.6	to fizzle into a breakup. I feel like we both lost something on that day.
1:17.0	That I still think a lot about, you know, I'll probably spend the rest of my life thinking
1:21.5	about him from time to time.
1:24.0	This episode I've In Perfect Paradise Return to Mexico, Part 3.
1:28.0	Then Yand is caught between fighting to go back to the US or opening up to his life in Mexico.
1:34.0	And I started having this weird struggle within myself of what part of me do I keep?
1:40.0	The Mexican part that has this beautiful freedom that can go anywhere or the American one that's always wanting and longing or something that he no longer has.
1:50.0	And then Yil reckons with the trade-offs inherent to migration.
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