'La Brega' in Puerto Rico

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How la brega illustrates the Puerto Rican experience.

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0:00.0	On this week's on the media, we bring you dispatches from Puerto Rico, a story about finding
0:07.7	the American dream, and also what it means to be in La Brega.
0:14.0	When I hear or use La Brega, I'm referring to the struggle.
0:18.9	The occasion is the inauguration of the South of Plains Service, but we ought to wear the
0:22.6	week go.
0:23.6	Bregan were being rejected in the United States event, though there were citizens, right?
0:27.9	And of course the cultural and linguistic differences.
0:30.6	More than angry, it makes me sad that we're in this time, but this is not only leviton,
0:36.8	this Puerto Rico in a nutshell.
0:39.8	A place that's the port Venniers, a line of the future, country of the future.
0:44.5	Port Venniers is a beautiful word.
0:46.8	Well, that's the Bregan Puerto Rico.
0:50.5	That's the Bregan.
0:51.7	That's La Brega.
0:52.6	That's La Brega in Puerto Rico.
0:54.8	It's all coming up after this.
1:01.2	This is on the media.
1:02.2	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:04.2	On the media's former producer, Alana Casanova-Bertis, has spent her career lifting up stories about
1:10.9	Puerto Rico.
1:12.2	It's history, it's people and politics.
1:15.0	That Americans who live off the island rarely get to hear.
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