The Mystery of the Itata - El engaño (The Deception)

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

Duolingo

Education, Society & Culture

4.4 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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In this episode we’ll travel back to Chile in 1922 to witness the Vapor Itata’s last voyage. There, we’ll follow Jorge X, a journalist who was heading north to cover a story that would expose the injustices in his country. But all the while, a bigger story was unfolding…right aboard the ship.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. A quick note before we begin.
0:02.8	This season of the Dual-Lingo Spanish podcast is serialized.
0:06.8	So if you haven't heard the first episode yet,
0:08.9	go back and listen to that one first.
0:11.2	In the first episode, our protagonists, Ricardo and Carlos,
0:15.6	started investigating the mystery of the vapeur y tata.
0:19.3	They found a first-hand account from a survivor of the shipwreck,
0:22.9	a book written under the name Jorge Iquíce.
0:26.2	Today, we're going back in time to the 1920s.
0:29.8	To follow Jorge on that fateful day, now onto the episode.
0:37.0	It was a crisp winter morning in the port of Cuchimbo, Chile.
0:41.4	The date was August 28, 1922.
0:45.6	Fishermen walked across the dock, their buckets full with the catch of the day.
0:50.2	Women in long skirts and headscarps were selling a type of traditional fried bread
0:55.4	called soba y pies.
0:58.2	At the end of the dock, a crowd of people huddled together.
1:01.6	A 40-year-old journalist named Jorge stood in the middle.
1:05.2	He wrapped his scarf tightly around his neck,
1:07.6	bracing himself against the cold.
1:10.0	In his hands, he held a ticket to a trip that he believed would change his life.
1:15.8	I'm a journalist.
1:18.0	I wanted to find a story about Chile.
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