Refugiados
Duolingo Spanish Podcast
Duolingo
4.5 • 14.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Stella Forner will never forget her first wedding anniversary. It was March of 1976 and she spent the day at the Mexican consulate in Montevideo, Uruguay, which was in the midst of a military dictatorship. She, her husband and their baby weren’t there for a romantic celebration but to ask for political asylum. They had no idea how long it would be until they again felt at home in their own country.
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| 0:00.0 | In February of 1976, life was tense for Stella Forner. |
| 0:06.1 | She had just given birth to her first son, Guillermo. |
| 0:10.0 | When Guillermo was born, the country was very divided. |
| 0:15.8 | They were violent times. |
| 0:19.2 | Especially in Uruguay, where it was increasingly difficult |
| 0:23.0 | to disagree with the government to support unions |
| 0:26.2 | or be a member of a dissident political party. |
| 0:29.1 | But however difficult things were then, they were about to get much worse. |
| 0:33.9 | But however difficult things were then, they were about to get much worse. |
| 0:38.9 | One day, I was at my house when someone touched my door. |
| 0:44.5 | It was a friend of the Communist Party, of whom I was part of. |
| 0:49.6 | Yes, Stella was a militant of the Communist Party in Uruguay. |
| 0:54.4 | They said they were coming to get her. |
| 1:02.0 | She immediately started packing. |
| 1:04.8 | I had to go back to my wife, my baby, and I left our house |
| 1:11.8 | only for a few minutes and we never returned. |
| 1:16.2 | We entered the clandestine. |
| 1:18.9 | They went into hiding. |
| 1:23.5 | Welcome to the Duolingo Spanish podcast. |
| 1:32.3 | I'm your host, Martina Castro. |
| 1:34.3 | And each episode we bring you fascinating first-person stories |
| 1:38.5 | from Spanish speakers across the world. |
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