ITT Sound Off: #RickyRenuncia
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio discuss the latest about the ongoing manifestations in Puerto Rico, where the people are demanding that Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigns after the leaked text messages scandal. They also talk about Trump’s racist tweets urging “The Squad” to go back to their countries, and the tourist deaths of U.S. Citizens in the Dominican Republic.
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| 0:27.0 | Hello, hello, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Maria Inovosa. |
| 0:32.0 | And I'm Julio Riccalo Guarela and this is I T. Soundoff and Maria |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah, you are finally back |
| 0:40.1 | You were in the Dominican Republic on your writing sabbatical, but you're back. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm so happy to have you back. I'm like so excited. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, I'm very excited to Julio. |
| 0:52.1 | It was very good to be away from the United States of America, to be honest. |
| 0:57.5 | It makes me sad to say that. |
| 0:59.1 | I was in the Dominican Republic, which by the way the politics there suck and there will be news about |
| 1:05.0 | what I was doing what I have been doing but I can't say anything about it yet but it's |
| 1:10.7 | great to be back in the studio back behind the microphone and with my dear friend and colleague Julio. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, well let's sound off. We got a sound off. |
| 1:17.7 | So Puerto Rico, you know when I was in Punta-Kana, which literally means we're like just a boat right away from the shores of Puerto Rico. |
| 1:30.0 | And, well, I'm saying send youolo, so can you give us the condensed version of the craziness that is going on? |
| 1:38.5 | And I just want to remind people, by the way, these are American citizens who are taking part in the you know |
| 1:44.9 | democratic process. They are our fellow American citizens. Okay so what's going |
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