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The Dig

Unforgetting with Roberto Lovato

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Roberto Lovato on Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Growing up Salvadoran-American in The Mission, fighting with the FMLN in El Salvador, making sense of MS-13, weaving back together the pieces of a transnational history severed by borders and violence. Lovato retells El Salvador and US history through his family's story. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Join The Dig book club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club/

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In Unforgetting, a memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas.

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Roberto Lovato tells the history of El Salvador through the history of his family.

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Lovato weaves the stories of reactionary massacres and revolutionary struggles in the 1930s and 80s

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into his own experience growing up the child of immigrants, Salvadoran American in San Francisco's mission district.

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Converting from nerd life to street crime to conservative evangelical

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Christianity and then in the 1980s moving to El Salvador to join the armed revolutionary struggle of the FMLN.

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