Suave: Parole & the Pursuit of Happiness
Latino USA
Futuro Media and PRX
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, Latino USA shares episode 2 of Suave: Season 2.
Suave can’t drink. He can’t smoke weed. He can’t travel. He can’t visit old prison friends, or basically have any interaction with the police. And that’s because even though he’s free, he’s on parole for a lifetime. In other words, he’s just serving his prison sentence on the outside. Sometimes all these rules make Suave ask himself, “Will I ever really be free?”
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| 1:00.8 | I'm Maria Inojosa. |
| 1:09.2 | Today, a preview of the second episode of Season 2 of our Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast, Suave. |
| 1:25.6 | Well, dear listener, it's been seven years since the release of David, Luis, Suave Gonzalez, from a maximum security prison. |
| 1:29.0 | Suave had been sentenced to life without parole as a teenager. |
| 1:33.7 | But you might remember we were there when Suave finally walked out of prison seven years ago. |
| 1:41.5 | Now, Suave is navigating life as a free man and dealing with all of the feelings |
| 1:47.5 | and pressure that comes with it, because starting over is complicated, and on the outside, |
| 1:54.1 | life can come at you dangerously fast. This season, we're going to go deep into Suave's quest to define what freedom really means for him. |
| 2:05.4 | Julieta Martinelli is the host of Suave's season two, and she's going to guide us through this journey. |
| 2:11.8 | And just a warning, dear listener, this episode contains some strong language. |
| 2:23.1 | Music this episode contains some strong language. Sometimes I do think that I was better off locked up. |
| 2:29.7 | That's hard to say, but it's the truth. |
| 2:34.1 | You know, it's the truth. |
| 2:35.6 | You know, it's the truth. And whoever been locked up 31 years or more |
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