Jan. 29, 2026

Protests Against Nixon In Latin America

Protests Against Nixon In Latin America
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The 1950s were a time of turmoil all over Latin America, mostly because of the US. Let’s remember that during the 50's the US intervened all over Latin America; thus, it was no surprise when there were mass protests against Nixon when Eisenhower sent him on a goodwill tour of Latin America.

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Sources for this episode:

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https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/just-why-did-nixon-go-to-venezuela-in-1958-anyway
https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/vice-president-nixons-motorcade-attacked-in-venezuela-may-13-1958-106584
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-13/vice-president-nixon-is-attacked
https://www.nytimes.com/1958/05/09/archives/nixon-is-stoned-by-peru-rioters-headed-by-reds-braves-student.html
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https://www.berkshireeagle.com/nixon-riot-venezuela-1958/image_f781d32c-d211-11ec-a498-5310731e4f98.html


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Hi everyone.

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This is Carmen and Christina and this is the study

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as Unknown, a podcaster where we talk about Latin American history.

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Sometimes it's horrible and deals with tybe topics like racism, corruption,

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and genocide. But more than that, it's also about community

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power and resistance and today what are we doing today?

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Today?

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We're talking about we were talking about Nixon, unfortunately, but

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some things happened to him that will bring you joy.

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And we need joy in times? Do we ever? Do

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we ever? Yeah? Okay, let's get into it. Okay.

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So the nineteen fifties were a rough, rough all over

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in Latin America, mostly because of the United States, of course,

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always of course, yeah, yeah. Let's remember that during the fifties,

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the US intervened all over Latin America, supporting dictatorships in

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the name of any but communism, right right, right, brutal

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right wing dictatorships were better than anything communist, yeah yeah, yeah, governments.

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Yeah.

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And so obviously Latin Americans were discontent with the United

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States because, like you just said, the United States was

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supporting dictatorial regimes all over Latin America. For example, a

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topic we did an episode on in nineteen fifty four,

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the democratically elected Guatemalan president Krkovo Advents was overthrown in

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a US supported coupe.

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That's just one example, one example of many.

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Yeah, And so for some reason the United States thought

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it was well, not first meetson but because of foreign policy,

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the US thought it was a good idea to send

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then the vice president Nixon to tour mostly South America.

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The US sent then Vice President Nixon to tour Latin America,

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like a good will type of tour, and the US

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was feeling partly optimistic because Peron in Argentina had just

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been deposed, and Arduro Fromdinci, who the US thought would

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be operative of them or with them, had just been elected.

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And in Colombia Alberto Jerras Camargo had just been elected.

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And this was someone Nixon had described as quote an

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enlightened and dedicated statesman. I'm not sure why I didn't

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look further into that, but it's concerning for nexting to

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say that's bad coming from Nixon.

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YEA.

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So Nixon and his wife pat left for Latin America

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and in late April slash early May of nineteen fifty eight,

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and at first things were uneventful. Nixon and his people

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were gretated and mostly warmly. In Uruay were only about

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forty students protested. Oh yeah, that's a little bit. In Argentina,

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he went to a barbecue and attended Frondin C's inauguration,

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and it seems like there were no issues in Pataguay

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or Bolivia. It wasn't until nixt In and his crew

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got to Peru on May seventh, nineteen fifty eight, where

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they faced discontent of the rock throwing kind. Oh rockings,

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not stonings, not rockings. The crowd at the San Marcos University,

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which numbered in the thousands, and Peru threw rocks at

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him and prevented him from entering the university altogether, chanting

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Nixon go home. And I guess he was scheduled to

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do a debate there for some reason. Yeah, and they

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didn't let her at the original Charlie Kirk if you will,

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except he was actually no, yeah, he was vice president, yeah,

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not just some podcaster.

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And he got into an argument that I didn't write

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down here but because I forgot to write about it,

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but I'm pretty sure was here. Yeah, he got into

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an argument with one of the students and he's like.

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Just let me tell you the truth.

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Oh my god, yeah, the truth. And it's like, yeah,

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they know the truth. That's what they're protesting you. Why

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do you think they're there? So Nixon waited into the

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crowd with only two staff members by his side, and

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he was he was hit by the rock.

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In the neck.

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It degrased him. I grased him and didn't fully look,

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you know, dangerous, dangerous. Rockings can be dangerous. They can

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and uh one of his staff members got hit by

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a rock too.

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Oh no, yeah.

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Once he got back to the hotel, a protester nay

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a hero mm hmmm, he got too secured in he

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he he spent on Nixon's face. Is the No, there's

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not no. Oh my god. You know how happy that

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would make you if that was today, there would be footage.

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Oh yeah, yeah, hands down.

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So that was in Peru. And then after Nixon's Sumulch's

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visit to Peru, Eisenhower sent a cable cabled. I'm not

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sure about the terminology of sending cables, but he sent

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a message to Nixon. Oh okay, yeah, dear Dick, your courage, patience,

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and calmness in the demonstration directed against you by radical

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agitators have brought you new respect and admiration in our country.

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I'm certain that the vast majority of citizens, both in

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Peru and in the US deplored the incident caused by

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a few mind Joe thousands. Back to the quote, I

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know with satisfaction that the Peruvian government has already expressed

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to you to regret. Indeed, I feel that every participant

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in the mob will finally come to feel a sense

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of guilt and embarrassment because of its failure to show

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a friendly visitor the ordinary measure of courtesy and hospitality.

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Give them all to pat and warm regards to you

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quote dumb hospitality, shut the fuck up.

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And then once again there.

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Were no issues in Ecuador and Colombia, but things change

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in Venezuela, where Venezuela, of course had to be Venezuela. Yeah,

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I'm not surprised there, and this is sorry what years

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and I think afty eight, I don't know what's going

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on in Venezuela during this time.

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Well I know, let me.

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Tell you, oh what went to blow in the blanks

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a little bit? I do mention a little bit later,

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of course, that its olons were mad because of what

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was going on with their brethren all over Latin America,

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but also because the US supported the dictator who had

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just been ousted. Yes, yes, and there's a lot of

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yeah getting yeah warfare going on in this time in

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Venezuela and yeah interesting. On May thirteenth, nineteen fifty eight,

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Nixon and his crew arrived in Caracas, Venezuela to continue

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the good will tour, and things did not get better there,

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to the point where Nixon had to got his trip short.

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Besides US and justices in Latin America as a whole,

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one of the reasons Venezuelans were unhappy with the US

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was because the US had supported the former dictator Marcos

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Pedez Jimenez, who was overthrown only a few months before

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Nixon's visit. In fact, Eisenhower had even given Petes Jimenez

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a medal for meritorious services. Of course, so Nixon was

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met by a mob pretty much immediately as soon as

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he got off the plane, who quote purposely disrupted the

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welcoming ceremony by shouting, blowing whistles, waving derogatory placards, throwing stones,

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and showering the Nixons human spittle and chewing tobacco and

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quote human spittle. Yeah, all time award, respectful and like

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I mean, I don't think it needs to be said,

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but the Pedes Humanez regime was a brutal one, very repressive.

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Thousands were jailed, many were killed. So and I believe

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he does return at some point. I'm sure. Yeah.

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They The crowd also threw bottles, eggs, oranges and shouted

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things like Yankee, go home, You're not welcomed, American dogs, imperilists, beautiful,

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some signs Red Nixon, your government is responsible for the

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Guatemalan tragedy.

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And they were right.

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Mm hm. And as the Nixons drove through Karakas, their

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motor kid was forced to a crawl, and soon after

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a crowd of several hundred descended on their car, throwing

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rocks and banging on the windows. Some were injured. Nixon

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Secretary Rosemary Woods was hit by glass. Vernon Walters, a

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US Army officer translating serving as a translator, ended up

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with a mouthful of glass.

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Oh.

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Bruce Henderson, a reporter from the US who was there

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during this wrote quote, I was an American and here

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before my eyes, the Vice President of the United States

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was on the verge of very possibly being beaten to

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death end quote. And the crowd started to rock the

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car back and forth. Imagine that's where Nixon would have

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met his end.

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Things might have been different for Vietnam. I don't know.

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I don't know. I imagine.

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So the crowd started to rock the car back and forth,

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and Secret Service agents felt that Nixon's life was in danger,

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so they drew their guns at the crowd, and in

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a moment that some apparentheses me in a moment that

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some feel like it gives too much credit to Nixon,

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he told the Secret Service agent to hold the fire

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and ultimately no childs were fired, which whatever. No one died,

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So that's good. That's good. It's a good things good.

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Imagine how bad that will look out for the US.

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I mean, that's probably why he did it. Imagine the optics. Yeah,

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US goes to foreign country and then guns down Yeah, proadtesters.

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In his memoir, Nixon said he thought that they might

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be killed during this incident and described it as one

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of the scariest experiences of his life. And there are

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different accounts as to how Nixon's motorcate got through the crowd.

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Some say a press truck was able to block oncoming

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oncoming traffic in the opposite lane, and so they were

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able to turn around and escape. And then there's like

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different variations of this. Okay, okay. Per the Secret Service,

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the Venezuelan police had declined to intervene and to clear

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the crowd, and the Venezuelan Foreign minister, who was actually

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in the car with them with Nixon, Oskara Gatia later

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said that the police declined into a intervene because the

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Communists had helped to overthrow but as humans, so they're like, oh,

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we don't want to mess with them. They helped us,

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I see. Yeah, they were working together. Yeah, it was

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a big coalition of all these different groups, including like

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the military what you would consider like a centrist so yeah,

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and yeah, the United States was quick to blame the

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Communists for these protests throughout South America, but in reality,

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sure the Communists were involved because they're always organizing.

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But this was.

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Bigger than the Communists, because everybody was mad with reasons.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, And the US also mobilized the military when they

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learned about the protests and attacks against Nixon in Venezuela,

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and they almost emade it in an operation called Operation

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Poor Richard's. What a stupid name. Why are they always

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coming up with the dumbest names? Oh my god, I'm

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like so.

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Mad just hearing the name. I phone it right, I'm like, no,

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are you shitting me?

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Right now? So a fleet of twelve ships were being

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ready to enter Venezuela. The US says to cooperate with

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the Venezuelan government. Others say Eisenhower was preparing to invade

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the country, and that sounds about right.

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Of course.

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When these protests were reported on in the United States,

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I pinted Nixon as a victim. In the May nineteenth,

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nineteen fifty eight issue of Life magazine, Nixon was depicted

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angrily pointing his finger in the face of a student protester.

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And this is during the debates that were supposed to

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happen that I was telling you about, Yes, And they

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described the image as quote a righteously angry man armed

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with nothing but a pistol pointed finger, standing up to

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a mob of bullies and quote go to to wrath

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by denial of the right to free speech end quote.

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Oh my god, Nixon is not the little guy here exactly.

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You're gonna paint the vice president of when the probably

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at this time the most powerful country in the world

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and the quote police of the world, as a victim

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of bullies from a country that had been brutalized by

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the United States, and you're gonna paint them as a bullies.

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This is just ridiculous. And of course this was bigger

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than Nixon, right. They were not protesting Nixon himself. They

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were protesting the United States. But he was a representative

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of the United States. Yes, but also there was reason

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to protest next to himself, not really not at this

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point yet because he was the vice president, yet I'm

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thinking of it.

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So yeah.

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But what I'm saying is painting it as that they

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were protesting Nixon himself takes away the fault of the

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United States.

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And isn't that what they're causing turmoil?

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Yes, And that's the same The same way they're painting

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it as a free free speech issue is to gloss

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over the atrocities the United States and what they had

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done so far in Latin America during this time. That's

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why people were mad. They weren't denying Nicks in his

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free speech. They were saying, fuck the United States. You

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have terrorized US. Yeah. So yeah, that's just what I

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wanted to say, like it was bigger than Nixon. Yeah,

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But of course that's not how the US media painted it.

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And I found a cool article, like a research academic

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paper about the Life magazine article, and they wrote about

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contradicting the United States centric narrative and pointing out the

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implications of using terms like free speech and how US

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imperialism had an involvement in this. But the US media

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gloss over that. Of course. In their article research article,

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they had alternative videos and pictures and all accounts from

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student protesters. But I couldn't open it, and I want

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to open it. What why couldn't you open it?

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I wouldn't let me open it. I don't know.

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When Nixon returned to the United States, pretty much everyone

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was kissing its fucking ass. They were kissing cross as.

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Inhower ordered that Nixon should receive a hero's welcome and

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gave all federal US government workers in DC the day

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off so they greet him when he arrived.

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And so Nixon got off the plane to a cheering

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crowd of ten thousand people that included Congress leaders and

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members and ambassadors from most Latin American countries.

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Are you serious? Yeah? I cannot control I know, I

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see you.

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Nixon was painted as calm and collected by most US media,

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with one exception. The New Republic claimed that the attack

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on Nixon was a hoax to help Nixon's chances in.

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The upcoming election, which was a.

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Take called a unique take Yeah yeah in Venezuela. After

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the protests, most of the presidential candidates for the nineteen

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fifty eight election denounced the attack, except for the incumbent president,

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Admiral Lata Saban Lada Saban, who said he would have

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joined the protests if he were a student.

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I love that.

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And some speculate that the attacks knicks in faith during

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the Good World Tour highly influenced his attitude for Latin

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America and his later support of US intervention in the region,

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including supporting dictators, which the.

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US are doing anyway they were going to do anyway. Yeah.

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Nixon later said that all of Latin America, except for Columbia,

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who notably greeted him normally during the tour, was too

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mature for democratic government and would be better run as

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authoritarian regimes, and he also said that about France, Italy,

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hate Nixon.

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Yes, there was protests in Italy Rome. I didn't know that.

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I saw a sign of someone in Rome. They're holding

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a sign that says Nixon and they put the Nazi symbol.

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Oh wow, oh wow, that was in Rome. Yes, that

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was Rome. Wow. I mean they had a reason to

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say that. Yeah. Yeah, No, wonder if he said that

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about them? Yeah. Yeah.

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This incident also made US policy makers aware of the

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growing resentment against the US policies in Latin America, which

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he was going to be received with open arms.

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And by the end of nineteen fifty eight, the US

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National Security Council listed Yankee phobia as a key challenge

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to US interests in Latin America. No fucking way. Yeah,

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Yankee phobia. Yep, I do have that. Yeah, and yeah,

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those were the protests against Nixon in nineteen fifty eight.

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Wow.

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More power to the places that met him with that

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fierce prote Power to the people who were resisting US imperializamba.

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This reminds me of sorry, remind me again, when Panama

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was invaded. That was Bush senior, Bush Senior, Yeah, elder

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Bush went to Panama after the US invasion, and he

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was similarly met with the crowd.

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Did he had to leave? I don't even think.

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He finished his tour, his speaking engagement that he had

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scheduled in Panama. The car like it couldn't even move,

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similar to be overturned. Yes, they had to leave. They

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were ready to use because there was the US military

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was already there, so they were like ready to gun

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down more because again a lot of people dine in Panama.

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Yeah, more than they have ever admitted to.

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And there's footage of this one because this was in

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the what late nineteen it would be in the late eighties,

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early nineties. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, there's footage of this

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one and you can actually see it in the Panama

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Deception documentary.

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Oh I just need to watch that. Yeah, the very

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long documentary.

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I'm also a little bit cheap where you have that

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like ninety ninety thirteen style.

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Yeah, they're like this is very dramatic, but so informative.

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They really went in there and talked to the people,

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and there's footage of his car not even being able

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to move, being shaken, the windows were shattered. Yeah, he

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was met with fierce resistance and then they again they

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thought they were going to be met with open arms.

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It's like what you expect after you write havoc all

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over the world to be received with open arms. No,

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people are mad as it should have been and continue

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to be.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I'm waiting for the World Cup whenever the US

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enters a match for them to be booed to oblivion,

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isn't it. I don't think happened here. Oh yeah, well no,

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there's gonna be games in Mexico. Yeah too, But I'm like,

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how is that gonna work? Like, I don't think that

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would be aired. Yeah, I think they were like cutting,

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Well they did that and NFL games when Trump has

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been there and they blew him, they they quiet.

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Down the booze.

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Yeah yeah, so okay, well, thanks for this joyful episode

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we really needed. That brought me joy, and that brought

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me I'm smiling for the first time.

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But dude, how petty, really, how petty would have been

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for Nixon to be like, oh, I'll never get out

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of this Latin America. Besides that, they you know, we're

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already going to know. I believe that. I believe that.

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I believe that too.

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No, that's my theory of events of motivation, and I agree, yeah, no,

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I agree very Stephen Miller like, you know, yeah, yeah,

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But with that we'll end this episode and we'll get

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into the episode where we can talk say by right, yes,

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I was about to say sorry, I thought you weren't.

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They're just going to go straight to yappings if anyone else,

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to heroes.

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Yep.

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We yap about current events, the current horrors, and yet

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we persist when things are lighter we talk about in

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a drama. But things have not been light, Okay, they

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have not, So we have been talking about the terrors.

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in Latin America. We hope that that was one less

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