NPR's Lulu García-Navarro and the State of Democracy in Latin America

In The Thick

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News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

She has worked as a correspondent in Israel, Syria and Libya, but Latin America is very much in her heart. Lulu García-Navarro, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, joins María and Julio to talk about the elections in Colombia and Mexico, and why we should pay more attention to Brazil. Want to read and see more of Lulu?

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to In The Thick. This is a politics podcast that we talk about race and
0:06.1	culture. I'm mixing it all up. Why? Because today's a special day. I'm Maria
0:10.8	nohosa. I'm just so excited.
0:14.8	As we say in the business, this is a big get for us.
0:17.6	We are so happy.
0:18.7	Yes.
0:19.7	You can't be more excited than me. Now some people are like who could it be you may recognize
0:25.0	that voice because that is Lulu Garcia Navarro she's the host of NPR's
0:28.9	Week in addition. Hey Lulu welcome to to In The Thing!
0:32.6	Ah, thank you!
0:34.3	Finally, I feel like I've arrived when you asked me.
0:36.8	I was like, oh, finally, I finally get to do this.
0:39.5	This is so exciting.
0:42.1	So you know what's so funny, L is that you know people well as you know I was the first
0:47.2	like seriously the first ever Latina in the NPR editorial structure ever.
0:54.0	That was in 1985 I was first an intern for all things considered and then I was hired that
1:01.0	September of 1985 to be one of the founding staff members of
1:05.3	weekend edition Saturday with Scott Simon and then you know many many years and
1:10.7	you're hired and it's just like wow
1:13.2	who is this person you're like traveling all over the world people think that
1:17.7	you and I because you know we are two Latina NPR correspondent, correspondent anchors.
1:23.4	They were like, when you guys know each other,
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