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Speaker 1: Hey, podcast listeners, just a heads up. This episode contains

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Speaker 1: some intense material, including references to severe violence, some of

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Speaker 1: which might not be appropriate for children. Please take care

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Speaker 1: while listening. From executive producers Daniel Ramidez and myself, Eva Longoria,

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Speaker 1: Sisters of the Underground tells the powerful story of the

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Speaker 1: Middle Bell Sisters, real life Latina's who sacrificed everything for

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Speaker 1: the fight for freedom. Okay, buckle up, musium here week,

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Speaker 1: calm all these letters the amina, they're kind of like

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Speaker 1: a story. Do you think you can make a whole

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Speaker 1: book out of all these letters? When there how only

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Speaker 1: that way more people can read? And even outside the museum.

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Speaker 1: You are a very smart one, are they like? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I wonder which letter was the very last one before Abuela?

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Speaker 1: You know, do you think they ever got to say

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Speaker 1: goodbye to each other? No one actually knows me. I'm more,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think so. You know, life isn't the

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Speaker 1: study as all that. And after Puppy was transferred to

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Speaker 1: the prison in Pata, everything took a turn for the worst.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, are you in charge here? Good morning? We

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Speaker 1: have information that our husbands have been transferred. That's correct,

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Speaker 1: they have been transferred to Puerto Plata. Whata And why

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Speaker 1: weren't we informed or this from our superiors? We just

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Speaker 1: follow them, but can't we see them? Is it's are

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Speaker 1: permitted on Fridays from two to five pm? Oh very well,

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Speaker 1: then we'll go this Friday, all right, I'll notify my superior,

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Speaker 1: as you well know, you must first report here before

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Speaker 1: you leave. Well, we just did tell your superior that

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Speaker 1: this upcoming Friday will be importa. Don't go to Portolat.

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Speaker 1: It will just throw attention to you. I'm very worried.

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Speaker 1: Easy for you to say you have your husband by

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Speaker 1: your side, unlike us I and honestly that they what

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Speaker 1: can they do to us that they haven't done already?

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Speaker 1: But I see some mane. It's just too risky. I

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Speaker 1: think it's better if you wait it out until things

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Speaker 1: get better with these people. Waiting is the last thing

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Speaker 1: we can afford to do. We've waited decades too long

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Speaker 1: to free ourselves from their oppression. Meanwhile, they gain power

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Speaker 1: by the day. I'm going with you, Babria. Don't you

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Speaker 1: even there. I won't let them go alone. Hire a driver.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to put your life at risks. Rumors

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Speaker 1: from the city alleged that you are being newer to Portada.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me just to be killed. Let me see how

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Speaker 1: the voice of the people is the voice of God.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that what you're always saying? Tranquila? Mommy, listen, there's

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Speaker 1: safety in numbers. We will be in public, and the

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Speaker 1: video cares too much about his image to do anything drastic.

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Speaker 1: Are you sure about this, Patria? We survived la guarenda.

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Speaker 1: We will be okay. I've never been so sure of

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Speaker 1: anything in my whole life. No, no, no, no, no no,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe this. Use me. Let me see how

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Speaker 1: I raise you to be strong in spirit and lespity

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Speaker 1: to not heads strong. Mommy, pa, if it's the four

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Speaker 1: of us, including the driver, it'd be political suicide for

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Speaker 1: to hurt us. It would make him look weak, not strong.

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Speaker 1: He will risk it, can't I Your boy, calm down,

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Speaker 1: it's just ruffino. He's taking us to put good evening.

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Speaker 1: How are you all doing bad? Very bad? I hear

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Speaker 1: you're the one taking my stubborn sisters tomorrow. Huh. I

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Speaker 1: am rene gladly agreed to let me take you in

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Speaker 1: his car. That's your disguise is somewhat We've heard great

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Speaker 1: things about you, one of the best drivers in town.

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Speaker 1: Thanks always here to help, especially if it's for your family.

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Speaker 1: What time do you want to leave? Very early in

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Speaker 1: the morning. We want to arrive well ahead of the

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Speaker 1: meeting time. Consider it done. I'll take care of the rest.

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Speaker 1: Good night, good night, and thank you Ruffino. On November

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Speaker 1: another day that I will never forget. Mom Maria, Theresa

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Speaker 1: Patria la Cruz took off on their journey to that prison.

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Speaker 1: Before they left, Ill said they notified the authorities as

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Speaker 1: they had promised, and arrived in Port just in time. Manol,

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Speaker 1: And are they hurting you why? I don't know. At

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Speaker 1: least no more torture for now, and I want to

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Speaker 1: be able to tell the children I'm okay, my dad.

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Speaker 1: I just feel so very far away from all of you.

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Speaker 1: I know you said we feel it too. But the

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Speaker 1: good news is that we have permission to visit every Friday.

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Speaker 1: But don't commune. Are you being well? No? Not really,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you looked then. How's the trip long?

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Speaker 1: But all right, this is all such small talk when

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Speaker 1: I want to say big things. Do you mean you're not? Sam?

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Speaker 1: Yea more me too? You know we're not giving up right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, but we're worried. We think they know that too.

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Speaker 1: There is a persistent rumor from the new prisoners that

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Speaker 1: the only reason we were transferred here was to lure

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Speaker 1: We can't believe it's true, but just to be safe,

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Speaker 1: Patia came and the world's best driver who finally acoust

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Speaker 1: Do you think this routine gives a rest ass about

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Speaker 1: that about appearances? With what we've seen and heard, this

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Speaker 1: government and half ago on the abbes, all of them

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Speaker 1: will do anything to anybody with no remorse or care.

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Speaker 1: This meeting is over. What do you mean over? We

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Speaker 1: just got here. You heard me, miss obey my orders

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Speaker 1: or meet the same faith as your husband's. Let's go

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Speaker 1: momento inside said that we were told that we would

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Speaker 1: have until five. I said it's over. Stay strongly, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: this will be over soon. I can only imagine how

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Speaker 1: this must have felt like a door closed on their hopes.

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Speaker 1: The abruptest missile made them anxious and vigilant. Either me,

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Speaker 1: we're being followed. You write my day. That car has

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Speaker 1: been following the since we saw a dream. Please be careful,

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Speaker 1: Ruffino don't drive so fast. No, no, drive faster. We

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Speaker 1: need to lose that dream. I think I've been carrying

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Speaker 1: it around all my life. I have a bad feeling.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're just six courting us, making sure we leave.

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Speaker 1: Don't be so naive, Mathing. Well, we can't assume they

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Speaker 1: got our meeting short. They must be up to something. Look,

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Speaker 1: there is a roadblock. They are ordering us to stop.

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Speaker 1: Don't don't stop, you mean don't you joined the revolution

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Speaker 1: late Patria. It doesn't mean you have to make up

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Speaker 1: for the last time. They'll shoot us if we don't comply.

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Speaker 1: Of course I'll stop. I'm sure it's some sort of misunderstanding.

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Speaker 1: See Prometa, there are five of them. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: this isn't a misunderstanding. It's a challenge. Five men were

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Speaker 1: waiting for them, not matter pic a bridge led by

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Speaker 1: the commanders. Little did they know that this man was

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Speaker 1: in charge of a brutal plant. Was right. He'd received

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Speaker 1: an order to apprehend them days before. Their access to

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Speaker 1: their husbands was a part of a set up. What

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Speaker 1: is the matter, officer. We've just been to see our husbands.

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Speaker 1: We had official permission, and now we're on our way

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Speaker 1: back home. I have orders to detain you and take

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Speaker 1: you in our vehicles. There and why we've complied with

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Speaker 1: every demand. Just get out of the car. Patria, who

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Speaker 1: was sitting on the right side, saw a truck driving

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Speaker 1: by and jumped out and ran to engage and alert them. Hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're the mirror of our sisters. You've heard of us.

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Speaker 1: Surely the military is arresting us for no reason. Please help, please,

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Speaker 1: they're going to kill us. Please, hey, comes, come here,

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Speaker 1: come here now, you don't touch me. Come down thine

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Speaker 1: a lot worse. Please tell her family if they're taking us,

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Speaker 1: Please tell her family. Family. No one dare to fight

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Speaker 1: the regime playing sight like that. Immediately the guards got

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Speaker 1: by force. You have no right to arrest us. Play

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Speaker 1: to me, Let me go. I'm just a driver. Please,

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Speaker 1: they're going to kill us, murderers. Was this your dream too? No?

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Speaker 1: This is different. I don't think I can continue the story.

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Speaker 1: I am I'm gonna pull over. But you said it

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Speaker 1: was important for me to know. Was that the day

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Speaker 1: that they Please tell me? Okay, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you can't do it. You speak for them. Okay, if

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Speaker 1: I closed my eyes, I can't imagine the cries, the anguish.

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Speaker 1: This fair, my dad. The guards hold the sisters deeper

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Speaker 1: and deeper into the bushes far from the highway, each

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Speaker 1: of them with a victiming toe and a chloe. Each

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Speaker 1: goes in a separate direction to commit his brutal lot. Hello,

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Speaker 1: kill me, and I will lift my arms ever stronger,

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Speaker 1: even from the grave. All right, let's finish what we

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Speaker 1: came here to do. Get them into the car and

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Speaker 1: we'll ditch it down in the ravine so it will

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Speaker 1: looks like an accident. Right. They should have never been

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Speaker 1: allowed to cause trouble while they were alive. Let's make

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Speaker 1: M Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to force you

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Speaker 1: to tell it. I'm here, here, I'm here. Oh, probably

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Speaker 1: a minima. I'm okay, I just I needed a minute meet.

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Speaker 1: It all happened very close to this area. So on

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Speaker 1: our way to town you will see the murals honoring

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Speaker 1: them right at the edge of the mountain. And I

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Speaker 1: think that we should actually go see the monument first,

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Speaker 1: jacket and wake before the museum. Lea, stop your mode.

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Speaker 1: You already if you are. I think I can do

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Speaker 1: it now, right, Yeah, let's keep going okay with the

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Speaker 1: other day were on edge. Of course, night had fallen

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Speaker 1: and there was still no sign or the driver. Something

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Speaker 1: has happened. Mia. It's nine pm and we haven't heard

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Speaker 1: anything from them. I'm having Morrissa pasen your source. Please

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Speaker 1: protect my daughters from harm and trouble, especial, may you

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Speaker 1: keep my girls. They are still my girls under your

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Speaker 1: They're here, They're here. I me, Mama. I met this

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Speaker 1: takey chair today. What what has happened? I got a telegram?

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Speaker 1: Can they say? Don you tell up? Please sit? No,

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Speaker 1: I will not damelon Patria Rofino de la Cruz. You

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Speaker 1: a car accident, no care an accident. No no, no,

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no no no no where they said

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Speaker 1: hear you, to hear you has blood on his hands. I, Mama,

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Speaker 1: it can't be true. No, whether said, I'm sorry, my more.

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Speaker 1: The telegram had omitted Mommy's name on purpose, trying to

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Speaker 1: avoid any scandal. So the in suing hours were filled

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Speaker 1: with anxiety, sadness, and growing hopelessness to hey that they

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Speaker 1: were made to jump through all sorts of bureaucratic hoops

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Speaker 1: think that's your Finally they came home, resting their best club,

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Speaker 1: both living and the dead. I love her, I loved,

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Speaker 1: I love lovell s your ma. You're rest in peace,

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Speaker 1: my dear sister. Oh the Monument of Lagumere where it

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Speaker 1: all happened. Wow. Look, I know it's hard for you,

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Speaker 1: but I am so glad you brought me. Oh there's

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Speaker 1: text here on this plaque. M h FIVOPO M no

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Speaker 1: will never die. A seems more here they are still

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Speaker 1: always able to renew the desire for freedom of the

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Speaker 1: Dominican people. A vigil was held the following day. Hardly

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Speaker 1: a word was spoken there, but he threw. He and

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Speaker 1: his agents thought they had extinguished the Meal Sisters. I

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Speaker 1: they were wrong. They had ignited a flame, and he

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Speaker 1: Finally there came what I call the way of the

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Speaker 1: Fit team. In today's news, American diplomat Robert Murphy is

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Speaker 1: paying a visit to our handed Alisibo. Welcome Murphy. Wow,

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Speaker 1: Murphy please. Grassy is premium high quality runs straight from

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Speaker 1: You know there are great distilleries in America too. Maybe

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Speaker 1: Our offer is fair. You can live a peaceful and

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Speaker 1: The opposition is getting stronger, and you know it so

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Speaker 1: Even if Kennedy himself were to come with machine guns

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Speaker 1: Can I see it? It is to dispel any rumors.

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Speaker 1: Leandrew had been transferred once again to La Sin. There

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Speaker 1: alissimo and this doesn't end here. Watch your backs never Oh,

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Speaker 1: okay day. Welcome to our old home museum EDNA. Ready

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Speaker 1: to go inside. Yes. Sisters of the Underground is a

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Speaker 1: Medias Michael Dura Network and Unbelievable Entertainment, with co executive

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Speaker 1: producers Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez, showrunner and director Jose

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Speaker 1: Gilbertson at Tune Welders in Atlanta. Sound design, mixing and

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Speaker 1: mastering by Harper W. Harris, Assembly editing by Leah Marie Puffenberger.

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Speaker 1: Jason Shannon composed our score, music editor Spenser Willis, Music

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Speaker 1: Mahia and Claudia Marti Corena. Our Incredible cast includes Dania

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Speaker 1: Cha Lin Taule as Maria Tresa Miraval Acariendo as Patria Miravan,

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Speaker 1: producers include Jose Maria Cabra, Mary Castellianos Gessel Bances, Virginia Prescott, L. C. Crowley,

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Speaker 1: Tavares Miraba, daughter of Minerva and Manolo, who is a

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Speaker 1: the book of letters that we quote throughout the series.

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Speaker 1: It's called Manana Escribo Travis. Check out our show notes

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