Hey, dear Latino USA listener, it's Maria.

So today we're featuring a new podcast from our friends over at LAest Studios.

It's called In Perfect Paradise, the Forgotten Revolutionary.

And it tells the story of activist Oscar Gomez.

So in this series, you're going to learn more about the Chicano Student Rights Movement

of the 1990s.

And about the investigative reporting behind the death of Oscar Gomez, who was a leader

of that movement.

And so now I'm going to turn it over to host Adolfo Guzman Lopez.

And remember to subscribe to In Perfect Paradise, wherever you get your podcasts.

And also a little warning, there are descriptions of violent death in this episode.

And for now, here's episode one of In Perfect Paradise, the Forgotten Revolutionary,

from LAest Studios.

There's just one photograph I've been able to find of me and Oscar Gomez.

It's from the day we met at a Chicano Student protest in downtown Santa Barbara, February

1st, 1992.

In the center of the picture, tall and determined in his black beanie, eyes focused, holding

his large cassette recorder.

It's silver microphone, raised like a hammer.

And I almost missed it, but I'm there too.

On the photo's left edge, I make out the sleeve of my white Zapata T-shirt, that indigenous

best I bought in Mexico City, and my Levi's 501s, I'm barely in the picture.

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