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Episode 03: The Gloves
For Sulem Urbina, boxing is a profession and a therapy. She is Mexican and a migrant, always with one foot in Arizona, her home, and the other in Sonora, her homeland. She is one of the best in the ring and her strength lies in the many bouts she has had to fight: constant uncertainty about her immigration status, the violent murder of one of her brothers, being treated as a person who is neither from here nor from there but on both sides of the wall … just like millions of us. But today, Sulem knocks out stereotypes and does so from the first round. Mexican journalist Jesús Ibarra tells us her story.
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Jesús Ibarra
Rubén Tapia
Maritza L. Félix
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Episode 04: The seasoning
A grandmother used to say that when the language of love ends, that is when the language of the kitchen begins. There is something magical about healing the body, heart, and spirit with food, so much so that we take it to the grave even on the Day of the Dead. Food is one of the human bridges with which we circumvent walls and deserts, with which we are partners in history and at the same time, of yearnings for the future. Journalist Liliana López Ruelas, from Tucson, Arizona, an hour from the border with Nogales, takes us on a journey on that bridge where we come and go between two lands.
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