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Carlos Alberto Madrazo and Luis Donaldo Colosio were members of Mexico's PRI party, both of whom tried to bring change to it and then died in suspicious ways, leading many to believe the PRI was behind their deaths. In the last episode, Cristina told Carmen about the history of this CIA backed party and in this episode, she talked about two men who tried to reform the PRI.

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https://course-exhibits.library.dartmouth.edu/s/modernmexico/page/gutierrez
https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0188-25032008000100002
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Revolucionario_Institucional
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Alberto_Madrazo_Becerra
https://jacobin.com/2023/06/mexico-jose-lopez-portillo-declassified-documents-cold-war-human-rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Donaldo_Colosio_Murrieta
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-colosio-shooter-9.6980661
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-11-13/the-colosio-case-revisited-again-mexico-arrested-alleged-second-shooter-in-sensational-2004-assassination
https://www.memoriapoliticademexico.org/Textos/7CRumbo/1994DMR.html

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On October 2, 1968, the Mexican military opened fire on students who were protesting. This dark event in Mexico's history became known as the Tlatelolco Massacre and takes place during Mexico's Dirty War. Before discussing the dirty war, Cristina tells Carmen a brief history of the party who was enacting this war on the Mexican people, the CIA backed PRI party.

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Benjamin T. Smith & Alexander Aviña (2023) A War to the Death, NACLAReport on the Americas, 55:3, 222-228, DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2023.2247740
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/mexico/2024-12-20/fifty-years-silence-mexico-faces-legacy-its-dirty-war
https://www.inehrm.gob.mx/es/inehrm/Verdades_innegables_Por_un_Mexico_sin_impunidad
https://www.justiceinitiative.org/voices/victory-truth-about-mexico-s-dirty-war
Delgado, K. (2013). El Partido Comunista Mexicano y el movimiento estudiantil de 1968: enfrentamiento, aportación e impacto. UAQ.
https://course-exhibits.library.dartmouth.edu/s/modernmexico/page/gutierrez
Former Spy Chief Arrested In Mexican 'Dirty War' Case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Mexicanist_Action
The Mexican Dirty War: A War to the Death w/ Alexander Avina and Benjamin T. Smith

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The Ohio Immigrant Alliance completed an analysis of ICE and Border Patrol agents who committed sexual or violent offenses against women and children. Their report presents the data, which includes an alarming pattern- 86% of the agents they examined were charged with or convicted of sex offenses, more than half targeted children and most remained employed with DHS for decades. The report also examines how failures in vetting, training, accountability, and institutional culture enabled this crisis and proposes solutions and reforms. 

CW- THIS EPISODE IS HEAVY, mentions of SA

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https://ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/8/18/worst-of-the-worst
https://tramontela.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web

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"Keep politics out of sports" is something heard a little too often, but these two have never really been separate. To further show that, Cristina tells Carmen about another very political football match, Argentina vs England, 1986. What made it political? The short but devastating war between the two countries just four years before this historic match. Las Malvinas were brought up once again as the two national teams faced each other in the 2026 World Cup.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/14/england-argentina-world-cup-2026-rivalry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War#Casualties
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/15/nx-s1-5893686/old-rivals-new-battle-argentina-and-england-clash-in-world-cup-semifinal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina_v_England_(1986_FIFA_World_Cup)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_FIFA_World_Cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da_CDPRG2j0
https://talksport.com/football/world-cup/559182/argentina-legend-diego-maradona-says-hand-of-god-goal-against-england-revenge-falklands-war/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-18425572
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands#Sovereignty_dispute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FIFA_World_Cup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Vernet#Falkland_Islands_venture

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Carmen and Cristina are taking a summer break! They will be back with a new episode on the first Thursday of September.

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