La Brega: An Encyclopedia Of Betrayal
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Photographer Chris Gregory-Rivera examines the legacy of the surveillance files known in Puerto Rico as las carpetas — produced from a decades-long secret government program aimed at fracturing the pro-independence movement. Gregory-Rivera looks at las carpetas through the story of one activist family, the traitor they believed was close to them, and the betrayal that holds more mystery than they realize.
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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 podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org. |
| 0:34.1 | Dear listener, this month we're bringing you episodes of La Brega, a special seven-part |
| 0:46.0 | mini series presented by Futuro Studios and WNYC Studios, all about the Puerto Rican experience. |
| 0:53.9 | Today's episode is an encyclopedia of betrayal. |
| 0:59.9 | And if you'd like to hear any of the episodes in Espanol, visit the La Brega feed wherever |
| 1:06.0 | you listen to your podcasts. |
| 1:08.1 | And now I'm going to hand things over to WNYC's Alana Casa Nova Burgess, the host of La |
| 1:14.1 | Brega. |
| 1:15.1 | Not long ago, Chris Gregory Rivera and our producer, Esa Gueldro de Guessandino, went |
| 1:26.9 | to an office in San Juan. |
| 1:28.8 | They were there to visit a stack of paper. |
| 1:34.6 | More than paper, it's a stack of folders, really, that was so heavy that it landed with |
| 1:39.4 | a thud on the table. |
| 1:41.7 | This is a carpet. |
| 1:46.4 | It just means folder in Spanish, but in Puerto Rico, its meaning has a lot more weight. |
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