Unforgetting With Roberto Lovato
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by journalist Roberto Lovato to talk about his new book Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas They discuss the cycle of violence throughout El Salvador's history, from revolutions to the rise of gangs in Los Angeles, and how the United States has played a role in all of it. ITT Staff Picks: - Listen to Roberto Lovato discuss Unforgetting on "Civic", the San Francisco Public Press's radio program. - This piece looks into how the United States has been deeply involved in creating devastation in El Salvador, via The Nation. - Roberto Lovato argues against "imaginary borders" and the media coverage that doesn't treat them that way, in this piece for Columbia Journalism Review. Photo Credit: Roberto Lovato's website
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| 0:25.0 | Part of what I'm trying to do is just show all the different forms of |
| 0:28.0 | facelessness that the United States has imposed and tattooed |
| 0:32.0 | onto Salvadorinos. |
| 0:33.7 | Hey what's up welcome to In The Thick |
| 0:37.7 | this is a podcast about politics, race and culture. |
| 0:40.6 | From a POC perspective I'm Mariano Posa. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm Huljurica Loberella. |
| 0:45.0 | We have a very special guest joining us from San Francisco, California is Roberto Lovato. |
| 0:50.0 | He's a journalist, author of a new book, it's called Un Forgetting, a memoir of Family Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas. |
| 1:00.0 | Puro Puros, El Batruco, Salvo |
| 1:01.4 | Salvoino, Roberto, |
| 1:03.4 | Welcome to In the Thick. |
| 1:05.1 | Happy to be Cousteres, my gente. |
| 1:09.2 | I love it. |
| 1:10.8 | So the truth is that most of the time like I don't know but journalists we call each |
| 1:15.1 | other by our last names it's weird so I really know Roberto is Lovato I'm like you so what's up Lovato you know so |
| 1:20.6 | it's kind of like if I end up calling you that just it's out of love okay noosa |
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