Return to Mexico: Part 3
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Unable to return to the U.S., Daniel Zamora struggles to build a life in Mexico, until a trip abroad suddenly upends his perspective. Lorena Ríos reports.
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| 0:32.3 | This is In Perfect Paradise, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities. I'm Antonio |
| 0:37.3 | Seri- Hido. |
| 0:40.4 | Last episode, Danien Samora had to get used to life in Mexico, get a call center job, |
| 0:46.1 | get his own apartment, all while keeping up his cross-border relationship and waiting for news |
| 0:51.1 | of his deportation appeal, only to learn that the appeal was denied |
| 0:55.4 | and for his relationship with his boyfriend in the U.S. to fizzle into a breakup. |
| 1:00.6 | I feel like we both lost something on that day. |
| 1:04.4 | That I still think a lot about, you know, probably spend the rest of my life thinking about him |
| 1:09.8 | from time to time. |
| 1:11.6 | This episode of In Perfect Paradise Return to Mexico Part 3. |
| 1:15.6 | Then Yen is caught between fighting to go back to the U.S. or opening up to his life in Mexico. |
| 1:21.6 | And I started having this weird struggle within myself of what part of me do I keep? The Mexican part that has this |
| 1:29.2 | beautiful freedom that can go anywhere, or the American one that's always wanting and longing |
| 1:34.9 | for something that he no longer has. And Daniel reckons with the tradeoffs inherent to migration. |
| 1:42.4 | I do wonder, in that multiverse scenario, what Danny is doing and how Danny is doing. |
| 1:50.5 | Here's lead reporter, Lorina Rios. |
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