Historias Unknown

"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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Sources:

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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"Keep politics out of sports", is something heard very often, especially right now as the world cup is taking place. These two, especially futbol and politics, have never really been seperate and to show that, Cristina tells Carmen about two of the most political football matches in history. Argentina vs Peru during the 1978 World Cup, hosted in Argentina during the dictatorship, in which at least 30,000 were disappeared. As well as Chile vs the Soviet Union in 1974, the second leg was set to take place in el Estadio Nacional, which had been converted to a concentration camp during the dictatorship. The Soviet Union asked for a venue change, as it was already known that prisoners were being held captive there. 

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_FIFA_World_Cup
Smith, B. L. (2002). The Argentinian Junta and the Press in the Run-up to the 1978 World Cup. Soccer & Society, 3(1), 69–78.
https://doi.org/10.1080/714004869 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/06/argentina.usa
https://www.theguardian.com/football/in-bed-with-maradona/2017/jul/05/1978-world-cup-argentina-political-protest-goalposts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(UEFA%E2%80%93CONMEBOL_play-off)
https://www.marca.com/2013/11/21/futbol/futbol_internacional/chile/1385026960.html
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/deportes-40301910
https://pca.st/hg41k09e

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Guadalupe "Lupe" Villalobos Briseño was a civil rights activist who led the Kitayama Carnation Strike in 1968-1969, at the height of the Chicano movement.

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Sources: 

https://www.historycolorado.org/es/node/8155
https://www.historycolorado.org/story/2025/03/07/strike-national-florist-workers-vs-kitayama
https://www.westword.com/news/the-chicano-movement-powered-up-nationally-in-1969-with-two-denver-protests-11255549/  
https://youtu.be/2ozBYkeuYzo?si=PyZs04fjpuKATghU
https://history.denverlibrary.org/colorado-biographies/guadalupe-villalobos-brise%C3%B1o-1933-2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe_Brise%C3%B1o 

Lupe talking about the strike: 
https://vimeo.com/315250649

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What They Stole by Paige Towers blends together a true crime case from her hometown, a familicide, geopolitics, history, and so much more. The synopsis: In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a special act of Congress, the couple founded the Holt Adoption Program, which would facilitate the migration of tens of thousands of Korean children to the United States over the following decades.

The Sueppels were among the families profoundly shaped by the legacy of the Holt Adoption Program. To their suburban Iowa City community, Steven and Sheryl Sueppel were kind and charitable, humble yet magnetic—seemingly ideal candidates to adopt. But in 2008, when Steven found himself facing federal embezzlement and money laundering charges, he murdered Sheryl and their adopted children before ending his own life.

Paige Towers traces the interwoven histories of the Holts and the Sueppels, exploring the deeper, often hidden complexities of intercountry adoption: the ethical gray zones, the influences of religion and race, and the global inequalities that made such large—scale child migration possible. Meticulously researched and sensitive with its storytelling.

Carmen and Cristina were joined by Paige to talk about her new book. 

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Get the book from the University of Iowa Press or wherever you get books

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