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Speaker 3: I'm standing in the middle of a driveway peering into
Speaker 3: an open garage door on a hot summer night. I'm
Speaker 3: in my hometown, Stockton, California. The garage has been fully
Speaker 3: transformed into a makeshift gym, with matts covering most of
Speaker 3: the concrete floor and a heavy punching bag swinging next
Speaker 3: to the washing machine.
Speaker 2: Come this swamp, don't.
Speaker 3: You can't really tell because you can only hear her
Speaker 3: grunting at her coach, But inside, Faith Gomez is moving
Speaker 3: with precision and power, pivoting on her toes as she
Speaker 3: lands every job. Her belts and metals are proudly displayed
Speaker 3: on the wall, right next to a letter from the
Speaker 3: City of Stockton honoring her achievements.
Speaker 4: Don't keep your habits down.
Speaker 3: One of her coaches, who everyone calls Suley, is wearing
Speaker 3: a thick, padded chess guard to absorb her punches. Still,
Speaker 3: I can tell her quickness is wearing him out.
Speaker 4: Don't accept direction, So he was a Jeff.
Speaker 2: Time.
Speaker 5: I see you guys already working on getting hand down
Speaker 5: and all that.
Speaker 3: As the training session is about to wrap, Fate's other coach,
Speaker 3: her dad, Simon, enters the garage to see how things
Speaker 3: are going.
Speaker 5: To push, push it out, it up, put it down,
Speaker 5: but dominate that jabs.
Speaker 3: Faith is just two weeks out from her next big fight,
Speaker 3: an all female competition and her first international one. So
Speaker 3: every job, hook and pivot matter.
Speaker 6: Javid, like you guess, said David, right hand, always right
Speaker 6: here with rick, and move it aggressively.
Speaker 4: I tell it to be a little aggressively and I would boom,
Speaker 4: yeah about that else, fucker come on right hand. Right after.
Speaker 3: A year ago, I knew I wanted to tell a
Speaker 3: story that showcased the boxing scene here in my hometown
Speaker 3: of Stockton. A lot of greats have come out of
Speaker 3: our city. We have the Diaz brothers, Nick and Nate,
Speaker 3: who put Stockton on the global MMA map. But even
Speaker 3: before that, boxing had been woven into the fabric of
Speaker 3: this place, the legendary fights held at the Civic Auditorium
Speaker 3: back in the day. This place has a nickname, Fat
Speaker 3: City that reflects both irony and pride. There are layers
Speaker 3: to this stemming from Stockton's heyday, where you could come
Speaker 3: out to the Central Valley and make it big, lift, fat,
Speaker 3: and luxuriously. We may not have much, but we fight
Speaker 3: hard and there's beauty in that. We are news desert,
Speaker 3: a place where we mostly see mugshots and crime stats
Speaker 3: come out of our community. Yes, Stockton can be a gritty,
Speaker 3: rough around the edges type place. So I knew I
Speaker 3: wanted to tell this story because even in the often
Speaker 3: overlooked corners of this country, if you look hard enough,
Speaker 3: there's power, resilience, hope. But what I didn't know was
Speaker 3: that the story I'd end up telling would be about
Speaker 3: a teenager. Faith is only fifteen years old.
Speaker 6: Okay, so this is my bed.
Speaker 7: You can't see the bottom sheet, but it's pink because
Speaker 7: I'm going through my girly eric.
Speaker 3: Faith pulls up the comforter of her twin bed to
Speaker 3: reveal a hot, pink fitted sheet. On top of her
Speaker 3: bed are a handful of stuffed animals.
Speaker 7: I'm Faith Gomes attend squat Stocked, an early college academy
Speaker 7: known as SECA. I still gotta get used to saying softmore.
Speaker 7: I'm saying I'm fifteen and everything.
Speaker 3: Her thick brown hair perfectly frames the roundness of her
Speaker 3: baby face, and at five foot nothing, Faith is kind
Speaker 3: of small and she can be soft spoken at times.
Speaker 7: I have my mom, I have my dad, I have
Speaker 7: my sister Brittany Amber Jasmine, and then myself and then
Speaker 7: two pets, dog in a guinea pig.
Speaker 3: I was drawn to Faith's story not just because of
Speaker 3: her raw talent, but because I saw a young girl
Speaker 3: with big dreams and the heart and discipline to chase them.
Speaker 3: So for the last year I've been documenting her life
Speaker 3: as she prepares for her next big fight. Her story
Speaker 3: reminds me of the determination and hustle I saw all
Speaker 3: around me growing up in Stockton, that hunger to fight
Speaker 3: for something more, even when the odds are stacked against you.
Speaker 2: It's Latino Usa. I'm Maria no Josa Today. The journey
Speaker 2: of a teenage girl towards becoming a pro Latina boxer.
Speaker 2: What it's like to balance school girlhood and a dream
Speaker 2: of becoming boxing's next big name. Producer Adriana Rodriguez takes
Speaker 2: us back to Stockton to continue our story about Faith.
Speaker 3: I'm in faith off white room because she wants to
Speaker 3: show me something.
Speaker 7: And then this is rough because you can feel it.
Speaker 3: Faith picks up one of her many stuffed animals so
Speaker 3: I can feel it's fur.
Speaker 4: Oh you have a lot of monkeys.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. That's Jazz, Faith's thirteen year old sister.
Speaker 3: The two share room. People often think Jazz is older,
Speaker 3: maybe because she's a couple inches taller.
Speaker 4: No, when people see me, they say him.
Speaker 6: When they see me, they have a baby face.
Speaker 7: And then when they see Faith, she has a baby body.
Speaker 4: But she's a grown man woman.
Speaker 6: She just a grown man woman.
Speaker 3: Do you see?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: The girls are hilarious, constantly cracking jokes and full of
Speaker 3: goofy teenage energy. The corkboard hanging next to their TV
Speaker 3: says it all. It's covered with photos from tournaments and metals,
Speaker 3: glittery stickers, Hello Kitty and k Pop cutouts, a collage
Speaker 3: of girlhood and grit.
Speaker 8: And these are my rosaries. Oh yeah, to keep kept two.
Speaker 4: We're not Catholic, but we're Christian.
Speaker 3: Faith has two rosaries hanging right next to that glittery
Speaker 3: covered corkboard. They're families. Religious beliefs run deep and are
Speaker 3: woven into everything they do, from the way they fight
Speaker 3: to the way they care for each other. Faith is
Speaker 3: more than just a name. It's what holds the Gomez
Speaker 3: family together and out of the ring. Since you've been
Speaker 3: doing this for four years, like you know, you're still
Speaker 3: a kid, and I feel like boxing it's kind of
Speaker 3: like a serious sport.
Speaker 4: I definitely changed over the years, and once I got
Speaker 4: into boxing, it just cleared my mind and helped them,
Speaker 4: like stay focused on a certain thing, you know, helped
Speaker 4: me mature a little more. At times.
Speaker 9: I still mess around, you know, I'm still kids, you know,
Speaker 9: but when it comes to boxing, it's like that's all
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 3: As I've gotten to know Faith over the past year,
Speaker 3: I often find myself forgetting that she's just a teenager.
Speaker 3: She wakes up before dawn to run powers through a
Speaker 3: full day of school, trains hard when she gets home
Speaker 3: at night.
Speaker 4: Right now, I'm taking ap classes and college classes, so
Speaker 4: it's a little more harder than just going to regular
Speaker 4: high school.
Speaker 3: She even sometimes has to miss a week of school
Speaker 3: here and there just to be able to attend training
Speaker 3: camps and competitions.
Speaker 9: I feel like I'm just trying to enjoy the time
Speaker 9: I have right now, you know, traveling and getting out there.
Speaker 3: Yet somehow she finds time to do her homework and
Speaker 3: get good grades.
Speaker 7: When people going to stockdon like that place is places hard,
Speaker 7: the place is ghetto. You know, they have all these
Speaker 7: descriptions about this place. But like, to me, even if
Speaker 7: we were struggling, I still find comfort in places where
Speaker 7: we live.
Speaker 3: As someone who's also from Stockton, I hear her words
Speaker 3: and I feel that same mix of resilience and pride.
Speaker 7: People in Stockton stick together and they they will to
Speaker 7: help each other out.
Speaker 3: Faith's family has a long history in Stockton and with boxing.
Speaker 3: Her dad, Simon, is from here.
Speaker 5: Grew up around violence, group around it, and it was
Speaker 5: right in front of my face. It was almost for sure,
Speaker 5: you're going to join a gang. At that period of time,
Speaker 5: and as God blessed me with some guy.
Speaker 3: Getting talent, Simon leaned into sports. He played football and
Speaker 3: got involved in MMA fighting and training. It gave him structure,
Speaker 3: a way to stay focused, and eventually a way out.
Speaker 5: My story is it?
Speaker 4: And like unique?
Speaker 5: Is this a slocking story of kid had to fight
Speaker 5: his way home a lot. I didn't choose to join
Speaker 5: a gang. I chose to play sports and probably saved
Speaker 5: my life.
Speaker 3: And he's right, I know that story too, of having
Speaker 3: to fight my way home from school, except I was
Speaker 3: lucky because I grew up with two big sisters who
Speaker 3: were not afraid to run up on someone for making
Speaker 3: me cry. So most of the time I never even
Speaker 3: had to swing. Stockton will do that to a kid.
Speaker 3: It builds resilience into our DNA. Stockton was the biggest
Speaker 3: city in the US to go bankrupt in twenty twelve,
Speaker 3: so growing up in Stockton means you learn to fight,
Speaker 3: sometimes metaphorically and sometimes literally. So when Simon says his
Speaker 3: story isn't unique, I think a lot of us from
Speaker 3: Stockton get it, whether we like it or not. Faith
Speaker 3: grew up like any other kid, curious, energetic, always on
Speaker 3: the move, but even from a young age, her athleticism
Speaker 3: stood out. Simon would catch her climbing on the fridge,
Speaker 3: scaling hallways, and jumping over couches. By the time she
Speaker 3: was three or.
Speaker 4: Four, I want to start fighting, and always begging them NonStop, like.
Speaker 7: Take me to gym, let me go work out, let
Speaker 7: me go fight someone, you know once in.
Speaker 4: A while, get the bits out me and her words bam, bam.
Speaker 5: You know, she had a lot of power in her hands.
Speaker 5: We're just, you know, six seven years old, and I
Speaker 5: don't even.
Speaker 4: Find my sister's that time.
Speaker 3: Out of all of her sisters, Faith was the only
Speaker 3: one who wanted to fight, the one who enjoyed watching
Speaker 3: her dad do mma and was captivated by the boxing
Speaker 3: matches on TV. She had just turned ten when she
Speaker 3: really started begging her dad to box.
Speaker 4: I don't want my daughter to box.
Speaker 5: I know how it does get in the face. I
Speaker 5: know how does it get kicked, and it's not fun.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't want that for my kid.
Speaker 8: And she bugged me and bugged.
Speaker 4: Me and bugged me.
Speaker 3: It was twenty twenty, the world had just shut down,
Speaker 3: and Faith was still asking to box. With lockdown keeping
Speaker 3: everyone home, Simon finally ran out of reasons to say no.
Speaker 4: Finally he let up, and he was like a cigarette gent.
Speaker 5: I was off of work. You know, nobody's working, and
Speaker 5: basically I couldn't tell her no anymore.
Speaker 3: Part of him wanted to shield her from that grind,
Speaker 3: but he also recognized something in her. Letting her train
Speaker 3: wasn't just about boxing. It was about giving her the
Speaker 3: structure and self discipline that once saved him. The plan
Speaker 3: was just to sign up, get a feel for the
Speaker 3: training style, But the moment she heard they were going
Speaker 3: to the gym.
Speaker 8: She's like, hey, do I get to fight today?
Speaker 9: After the first like sparring, I had a liking today.
Speaker 9: I was captivated by, you know, just fighting inside the
Speaker 9: ring with another person.
Speaker 3: You're ten at that age. Yeah, It's hard to wrap
Speaker 3: my head around this sometimes that she was only ten
Speaker 3: years old when all of this started. Ten, just a
Speaker 3: little girl begging her dad to let her fight in
Speaker 3: a sport where punches land hard, where the goal is
Speaker 3: to outlast or overpower the other person, where pain isn't
Speaker 3: a side effect. It's part of the point. I think
Speaker 3: about what I was doing at ten, and then I
Speaker 3: look at Faith already carrying discipline hunger and this deep
Speaker 3: sense of purpose. I also think about what I was
Speaker 3: doing when I was fifteen, and honestly, the world felt
Speaker 3: like a place full of battles already, as it does
Speaker 3: when we're in that very hormonal adolescent phase, which for girls,
Speaker 3: there's that extra little thing our periods.
Speaker 7: People have different mental cycles and different pain levels, and
Speaker 7: I do struggle a lot when it comes to my period.
Speaker 7: I have a heavy flow, and I tend to cramp
Speaker 7: so much.
Speaker 3: That cramping that gets so bad it makes her throw
Speaker 3: up or leaves her unable to move.
Speaker 7: You could gain the one to three pounds I have
Speaker 7: to maintain my water more. I'm going to make sure
Speaker 7: I'm not bloated when the fight does come.
Speaker 3: It's not just about discomfort, It's about discipline.
Speaker 7: I could get through this. I could get through my weight,
Speaker 7: I could get through cramps. I could get through everything,
Speaker 7: and I can still mature and become a woman little
Speaker 7: by little.
Speaker 2: Coming up on Latino USA, the complicated relationship that this
Speaker 2: sport has with toughness, violence and what it means to
Speaker 2: be a girl in the ring.
Speaker 5: Lid which I take boxing my life from this kid,
Speaker 5: which I do.
Speaker 2: It does no word and now we step into the
Speaker 2: ring with Faith as she goes pound for pound on
Speaker 2: a national stage.
Speaker 10: Here my dad saying, you going, Faith, this is what
Speaker 10: we work for. Get mad, this is what came for.
Speaker 10: If you ain't mad, you ain't.
Speaker 8: Ready, stay with us.
Speaker 2: Yes, welcome back to Latino, USA. I'm Maria Hosa. We're
Speaker 2: going to go back to the story of Faith and
Speaker 2: her boxing journey. I'm going to hand the mic to
Speaker 2: producer Adriana Rodriguez, who's going to start by addressing the
Speaker 2: physical intensity of boxing, especially when it's young girls in
Speaker 2: the ring.
Speaker 3: I should probably state the obvious boxing is brutal.
Speaker 4: It just is.
Speaker 3: I've watched Faith fight a handful of times now and
Speaker 3: I still look away sometimes when the punches hit really
Speaker 3: hard and when there's blood. I ask Simon what it's
Speaker 3: like to watch his daughter step into a ring knowing
Speaker 3: she could get hurt.
Speaker 5: The only way to protect a kid is either take
Speaker 5: her out or teach her the right way. And who
Speaker 5: chose to be obsessive with that part of safety.
Speaker 3: Either you teach your kid how to do it right,
Speaker 3: or you pull them out elily.
Speaker 5: We tried to take boxing life from this kid, which
Speaker 5: I do it does not work. You can take your phone,
Speaker 5: you take you can take money away from ring whatever.
Speaker 4: She's fine with that.
Speaker 5: But every time you try to take boxing life shed
Speaker 5: I almost feel disrespectfu. She's ready to fight, be not.
Speaker 3: Everyone sees what Faith is doing and feels inspired. I've
Speaker 3: seen people questioning youth boxing online, and even medical experts
Speaker 3: are clear and cautious of the risks. They say it's
Speaker 3: not just bruises or broken nose, but there's the potential
Speaker 3: for long term neurological damage. Simon knows this, but feels
Speaker 3: strongly about his and his daughter's decision to pursue boxing.
Speaker 5: I would put her in some of these situations if
Speaker 5: I didn't trust what we do and what she she's
Speaker 5: not looking good, you know, then we wouldn't put her
Speaker 5: in it, or wouldn't sign her up for a fight.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 10: Corner makes some boys or face.
Speaker 3: One of face early fights took place in the tiny
Speaker 3: town of Coolidge, Arizona. She was just twelve, and this
Speaker 3: isn't a kid whose family can casually fly her around
Speaker 3: the country for tournaments. Every trip takes planning, fundraising, and
Speaker 3: sacrifice from everyone. But Simon knows how important these fights are.
Speaker 3: For an amateur boxer, because it could be the moment
Speaker 3: to catch the eye of the right coach, the right promoter,
Speaker 3: or even someone from USA Boxing or an Olympic scout.
Speaker 4: I heard him in the corner.
Speaker 10: Look you going, Faith, if you want this fight, this
Speaker 10: is all you. This is all you. This is what
Speaker 10: we worked for. We didn't come all the way from
Speaker 10: California to come here to lose this fight. You know
Speaker 10: you got, this is what we worked for.
Speaker 3: Faith's opponents stumbled to the ground, and Faith couldn't believe
Speaker 3: what she had just done.
Speaker 11: I've seen her lay on the floor and it shocked me,
Speaker 11: like I just dropped this girl, Like did I just did?
Speaker 4: I just bring the crowd to go silent.
Speaker 2: To your winner, my unanimous decision.
Speaker 3: This fight changed everything boxing.
Speaker 10: You got a blue corner, Faith.
Speaker 3: Faith didn't just hold her own. She dropped a top
Speaker 3: girl in her brack.
Speaker 10: I'll see to the music. I'll spill in it, you know,
Speaker 10: Winter Loss.
Speaker 11: I gave it my all. I dropped the top girl,
Speaker 11: and I was excited.
Speaker 3: Listen, I get it, I get it. It might sound
Speaker 3: really intense to hear a teenage girl talk this way,
Speaker 3: but honestly, I don't think being a fighter and being
Speaker 3: a teenager are two sides of a coin you have
Speaker 3: to choose between. I spent enough time with Faith to
Speaker 3: know that the girl who dreams about knockouts is the
Speaker 3: same one who giggles with her sister right after they're
Speaker 3: done arguing about sitting on each other's bed. Last December,
Speaker 3: Faith was fourteen. She and her family traveled across the
Speaker 3: country to the USA Boxing National Championship in Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 3: I went to and I'm not gonna lie. I almost
Speaker 3: had a heart attack thirty seconds into watching her fight.
Speaker 3: Watch literally notified me that my heart rate suddenly rose
Speaker 3: and I wasn't even the one in the ring. In
Speaker 3: the end, Faith did great in her bracket, and for
Speaker 3: the championship fight, she was set to face one of
Speaker 3: the toughest opponents of her young career.
Speaker 4: She's a top girl.
Speaker 11: She's never been defeated.
Speaker 4: I seen her guys, someone who was.
Speaker 11: Worth fighting, worth every bit of my time, and she
Speaker 11: didn't respect any of her fighters, and I want her
Speaker 11: to respect me.
Speaker 4: I want to show who.
Speaker 3: I am face opponent was known for ending fights early,
Speaker 3: and here was Faith going pound for pound, punch for punch,
Speaker 3: refusing to back down.
Speaker 10: You hear my dad saying, keep going, Faith, this is
Speaker 10: what we worked for. Get mad, this w came forward.
Speaker 10: If you ain't mad, you ain't ready, what a loss
Speaker 10: You're going to show her that you came here to fight,
Speaker 10: and you came here to give it to that.
Speaker 3: Even with the words of encouragement, Faith found herself slowing down.
Speaker 3: Her punches got a little lazy, and she stopped bouncing
Speaker 3: as much.
Speaker 11: My arms are tired, and how I just didn't want
Speaker 11: to let go. My body was sore and herding from
Speaker 11: long days of training and struggling to make weight.
Speaker 3: The bell rings, and Faith goes back to her corner.
Speaker 4: Something to My.
Speaker 10: Dad told me, how like, it don't matter what happened
Speaker 10: to ask for board.
Speaker 11: You know you gave it to me. You know you
Speaker 11: did everything you could.
Speaker 10: Faith, this is what we came for.
Speaker 3: Faith lost, But she held her own against one of
Speaker 3: the top girls nationwide. This teenager who was still juggling classes,
Speaker 3: chores and curfews, got in that ring and showed a
Speaker 3: kind of composure, courage, and heart that can't be taught.
Speaker 3: It's fierce, it's alive, It's earned her parents, her siblings,
Speaker 3: her coaches. They're all in this with her, and so
Speaker 3: is her city.
Speaker 8: We will be right back, don't they. Yes, Hey, we're back.
Speaker 3: There are clearly more opportunities for young boxers now, but
Speaker 3: that wasn't always the case for girls.
Speaker 12: So my parents didn't let me play sports. They didn't
Speaker 12: let me box. I was never on teams. I think
Speaker 12: that they were working too much, they couldn't afford things.
Speaker 12: And then the other thing is girls don't fight.
Speaker 3: Blanca Gutierres founded the all female Beautiful Brawlers competition. It's
Speaker 3: held annually in the coastal city of Pacifica, California, at
Speaker 3: her gym called baby Face Boxing. Blanca grew up watching
Speaker 3: her dad box, but unlike Faith, Blanca's dad never let
Speaker 3: her step into the ring as a young girl growing
Speaker 3: up in the seventies. But in her twenties, she stepped
Speaker 3: into a kickboxing gem and thirty minutes in she knew
Speaker 3: she was hooked. Some of the coaches didn't take her
Speaker 3: seriously at first, but Blanca didn't care.
Speaker 12: Six months later, I was fighting, and so I could
Speaker 12: literally say Beautiful Brawlers started. Back then, in my mind,
Speaker 12: I was like shit, like this is beautiful. This is
Speaker 12: what my life's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: So years later, Blanca built the space. She never had
Speaker 3: a gym where girls could fight and be taken seriously,
Speaker 3: this is exactly the competition Faith has been training for.
Speaker 3: The Beautiful Brawlers fight card hosted by Blanca's gym, a
Speaker 3: stage built for fighters just like her.
Speaker 10: We're going to start this event, mom, and we want.
Speaker 4: To say thank you for showing on, thank you for
Speaker 4: supporting us.
Speaker 12: The first time England comes across the pond to fight
Speaker 12: in the United States. It's a great honor.
Speaker 3: I've been to my fair share of boxing tournaments at
Speaker 3: this point, but this one feels different. The energy is
Speaker 3: bubbly electric, and there's this unspoken sense of competition and sisterhood.
Speaker 3: One by one, the fighters step into the ring for
Speaker 3: three two minute rounds, with each about ending not in
Speaker 3: rivalry but in sweaty, smiling hugs between opponents, no matter
Speaker 3: whose hand was raised.
Speaker 6: Right now, I feel confident, comfortable. I've been training for it,
Speaker 6: and plus it's a smaller ring and I could put
Speaker 6: on more of the show there. You know, she tries
Speaker 6: to run cast your right away and gotta worry about
Speaker 6: all that space.
Speaker 3: Her hands are wrapped, her gloves are on, She's bouncing
Speaker 3: in place, calm, focus, confident as ever. This isn't just
Speaker 3: another match. It's her moment.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's whatever.
Speaker 10: I mean.
Speaker 6: I'm coming for that belt, pink belt. Now, I'm trying
Speaker 6: to win the top international fight. I mean, that's what
Speaker 6: I came before, and that fight right away.
Speaker 3: With the footwork of a dancer and the grit of
Speaker 3: a street fighter, Faith puts on her show. Faith won
Speaker 3: her match and also walked away with the second belt
Speaker 3: for best fight of the night. I caught up with
Speaker 3: Faith outside of the gym just moments after the fight.
Speaker 3: A small crowd had already formed, family, friends, even a
Speaker 3: few strangers. They were all waiting for a chance to
Speaker 3: congratulate her and snap a photo with the champ.
Speaker 6: All Right, I just want I just want the one
Speaker 6: I was talking about that Bik Glenn. I feel good,
Speaker 6: I feel happy. Why isn't a little draink because I
Speaker 6: was draining water, But I mean I still pulped her
Speaker 6: head back. I gave a good show and a lot
Speaker 6: of people enjoyed its.
Speaker 3: Faith is already training for her next big fight. She'll
Speaker 3: be back in the ring for the USA Boxing National
Speaker 3: Championships this December. What else has been going through your
Speaker 3: mind with preparing for your next fight?
Speaker 4: Honestly, you could even.
Speaker 3: One to wear or another, but for now, this fifteen
Speaker 3: year old has school in the morning.
Speaker 2: This episode was produced by adrian Na Rodriguez and edited
Speaker 2: by our managing editor Fernando Echavari. It was mixed by
Speaker 2: Julia Caruso, JJ Carubin and gabriel Lebayez. Fact checking for
Speaker 2: this episode by Rosanna Aguire. Special thanks to Diego Ayala
Speaker 2: from the Press Recording Studio.
Speaker 8: In Stockton, California.
Speaker 2: The Latino USA team also includes Jessica Ellis, Rebecca I Vara, Rerinaldo,
Speaker 2: Leanos Junior, Stephanie Lebou, Andrea Lopez Cruzado, Lis Luna Gorrimr Marquez,
Speaker 2: Jurieta Martinelli, Monica Moreles Garcia and Nancy Trujuillo. Benni Le
Speaker 2: Ramirez and I are co executive producers. I'm Your Host
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