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Jul 31, 2020, 6 tweets

El Chasqui is out!

Before going on vacation for a bit, we leave you with a true-crime podcast, a fireside chat, and some summer reading. 📚 mailchi.mp/as-coa/el-chas…

@CarinZissis @TizBreda @MSDLatAm @gfrias @cmuruzabal @emiliesweigart @AmerQuarterly @ASCOAMedia @paolanagovitch @luisaleme What we're watching: #Nuyo79

Through the story of the 1979 Puerto Rico National Basketball Team, @nyricanbasquet reminds us to honor the Puerto Rican diaspora and recognize the many ways Boricuas hacen patria.

bit.ly/3ghUIf9

@CarinZissis @TizBreda @MSDLatAm @gfrias @cmuruzabal @emiliesweigart @AmerQuarterly @ASCOAMedia @paolanagovitch @luisaleme #SummerReading: Aramburu

In May 1970, a group of 20-somethings kidnapped and later killed a former Argentine president, holding his body hostage until Evita’s also appeared.

Journalist @odonnellmaria investigates the domestic terrorism of the montoneros. bit.ly/2PeucaQ

@CarinZissis @TizBreda @MSDLatAm @gfrias @cmuruzabal @emiliesweigart @AmerQuarterly @ASCOAMedia @paolanagovitch @luisaleme #SummerReading: Ornamental

When Volunteer No. 4 becomes emotionally involved w/a scientist and his artist wife, her presence pierces the couple’s complacency and the many certainties in their lives of ease.

By Colombia's Juan Cárdenas, tr. @lizzie_davis_ bit.ly/30d7Gp0

@CarinZissis @TizBreda @MSDLatAm @gfrias @cmuruzabal @emiliesweigart @AmerQuarterly @ASCOAMedia @paolanagovitch @luisaleme #SummerReading: El niño que fuimos

The novel's title was born from the idea that we are all survivors of the children we were. Mexican author @AlmaDeliaMC spins a tale of three childhood friends reunited 20 years later, changed but tied to their past. bit.ly/337mtU5

@CarinZissis @TizBreda @MSDLatAm @gfrias @cmuruzabal @emiliesweigart @AmerQuarterly @ASCOAMedia @paolanagovitch @luisaleme What we're watching: En el Camino

The director wants you to know this is not a postmodern film.

Rather, the protagonists are the mothers of 4 young men from Guayaquil with their stories of love and sacrifice.

The @renacerfilms @facsoug doc is on YouTube bit.ly/39L8W5V

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