This Giving Tuesday, Futuro reflects back on 2025
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It’s been quite the year, for the United States and for Futuro Media. At Latino USA, we’re bringing you in-depth reporting from the front lines. At Futuro Studios, we’re developing ground-breaking shows like La Brega Season 3, which is set to premiere early next year.
In this special Giving Tuesday episode, Futuro Media founder Maria Hinojosa reflects on the year behind and the year ahead. She’s joined in conversation by Latino USA Managing Editor Fernanda Echavarri and Futuro Studios Executive Editor Maria Garcia.
The Futuro Plus Team includes producer Tasha Sandoval, production managers Victoria Estrada and Jessica Ellis, marketing manager Luis Luna, and development manager Danetsy Len. Mixing by Multitude Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Futuro Plus. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, my name is Angelica Sanchez. |
| 0:10.0 | The episode that really shook me and touched me the most was Suave season 2, episode |
| 0:15.0 | 5, where Suave is crashing out about his car and just the helplessness. |
| 0:21.6 | I felt listening to that episode, both from Suave and Lydia, really, really touched me. |
| 0:27.6 | Anyway, I think about it all the time. |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you so much for the show and everything that you do. |
| 0:32.6 | Hi, this is Naïd-Bamon. |
| 0:34.6 | My favorite episode of this whole year was Camino Colombia, |
| 0:38.3 | Colombian American returns to the motherland. I thought it was great. I actually, I am Colombian too, |
| 0:44.3 | and had a similar story than Tasha. It was very special to hear someone with a similar story |
| 0:51.3 | and just to recognize myself in her stories, and |
| 0:56.2 | Khrushutushut Sasha for an amazing story. And thank you for everything you guys do. Bye. Dear listener, always at the end of the year, I'm like, wait, how did this happen? |
| 1:14.6 | How did we finish a year? |
| 1:16.5 | But we have finished the year. |
| 1:18.8 | We are coming up on the end of 2025. |
| 1:21.8 | And what a year it has been. |
| 1:26.0 | It has been a challenging year for our democracy writ large, for journalism. |
| 1:33.3 | But it's specifically been a very challenging year if you are Latino, Latina, Latinx, or Latine |
| 1:39.6 | in the United States of America. In terms of public media, very specifically, like the attacks have |
| 1:46.9 | come to fruition, right? The loss of funding for public television and for public radio across the |
| 1:55.4 | country. It's real. Futuro media was born 15 years ago. In the year 2010, there were also a lot of |
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