The Network: A Behind the Scenes Conversation

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We go behind the scenes with The Network’s hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez. In conversation with Maria Hinojosa, they share anecdotes and reflections on their reporting in Latin America for the 3-episode series produced in collaboration with NPR’s Embedded podcast. From what sparked their interest in telling this story to the challenges of trying to reconstruct something that happened 40 years ago.

Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.

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0:00.0	When I founded Futuro, I imagined a home for journalism with radical transparency.
0:06.5	I wanted a newsroom where I wasn't the only Latina behind the mic.
0:12.1	Now Futuro is becoming a home for more voices than ever.
0:17.9	Help grow this future by joining our new membership program. You'll get exclusive interviews,
0:24.2	whole season binges. Behind the scenes, Chiseme, shape the future of storytelling. Join Futuro
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0:38.6	And not you buy yes.
0:44.0	Futuro.
0:51.9	The first thing that drove me to the story was the pill.
0:56.6	And actually through the reporting and spending time in Latin America following how the information spread so quickly, how these women build support systems around this pill, I understood that that was the real story.
1:16.4	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA.
1:20.2	I'm Maria Inujosa.
1:21.7	Today, a conversation about the making of the network.
1:25.3	It's a new series that follows the women who transformed abortion access around the world
1:31.6	by taking abortion out of the clinic.
1:39.0	Hello, Latino USA listener.
1:41.7	You know, these past few days, we've brought you the network. It's a new series
1:46.2	that Latino USA co-produced with NPR's Embedded Podcast. And it's about this network of women,
1:53.3	not an established organization of any kind, but just women who were helping other women to have
1:59.6	safe abortions without a doctor present, and regardless of the law.
2:06.2	And by doing this, the women and these networks completely transformed abortion access around the world.
2:14.9	Latino USA producers and hosts of this series,
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