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Don't count on me. Hi everybody. Thank you for joining us. Today we have Professor Alex Avignia with us today.

He is a historian and his research. Sir Alex Avenia with us today.

He is a historian and his research focuses on 20th century

in Mexico with an emphasis on revolutionary movement,

the Mexican left, state violence and terrorism terrorism, immigration, and the history of narcotics,

production and trafficking.

Thank you for being with us today, Alex.

Thank you so much, guys, for the invitation.

It's an honor to be on the Red Nation.

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And with that, let's go ahead and get started.

Cool. Thanks again, Alex, for joining us.

Before we get started, I would just like maybe you to,

maybe if you could introduce yourself,

you know, your background where you come from, because I think, you know, the reason, one of the reasons why we had you on the show is, you know, both Jen and I are in the academy, but unlike a lot of our peers in the academy we come from you know working

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