¡Puchica Vos!

Helllllllllllooo y'all. It's been a minute, but that's because the holidays have truly been a time to test us. We're excited to introduce the new year with an interview Sam did with Pamela Chavez, the creator of the animated short film Caracol Cruzando. Pamela is a Costa Rican mujer that has pursued animation and illustration after a few years of community organizing. Influenced by contemporary issues impacting Latinx communities Pamela hopes to highlight the resilience and beauty that rise from these experiences. PLEASE watch Caracol Cruzando if you have not already. Be prepared to shed a tear or two. Thank you so much to Pamela for collaborating with us and please support her in the links below! Links/Enlaces Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Pamela Maria Chavez Website Caracol Cruzando, 2018 PBS Online Film Festival Roses For Wolves Short Film Caloncho - Palmar Shrek Retold

Wow has it really been one year? Thank you to everyone that has supported this little Central American Strugglepod! We are so appreciative of the amount of support we have been given and the connections we have fostered. This week we just critique and dissect ourselves and our show! We go into strengths, weaknesses, tangible goals and what inspires us. Thanks to everyone once again for being the beautiful community you are~ Links/Enlaces Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Featured Song: Flicker - Rina Sawayama Bodega Boys Podcast Small Doses with Amanda Seales Still Processing Podcast Recode Decode Podcast Radio Ambulante Podcast

This week we are proud to present Karla Vasquez, the creator of SalviSoul, an ongoing multi-media project and cooking anthology of Salvadoran food and Salvadoran womxn. Karla is a cook, food journalist, food historian and a food justice organizer. We go in to discuss Karla's new article featured in Eater about three Salvadoran restuarant owners in Los Angeles. We discuss the complex relationship women have with food, curtido, and the ways Salvadoran food is moving with its people. We are so grateful for Karla to give us the time to interview her and discussing her work! Links/Enlaces Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Karla's Instagram: @karla_tv SalviSoul's Instagram: @SalviSoul Karla's Twitter: @KarlaTVasquez SalviSoul's Twitter: @SalviSoul SalviSoul's Facebook Page SalviSoul's Website Karla's Eater Article: "Three Young Restaurateurs Are Trying to Change How Angelenos Eat Salvadoran Food"

We have been waiting so long for this episode. We want to introduce y'all to our mutual best friend Myrtha. Myrtha is the glue of this show and we wanted to provide a light episode that we recorded shortly before Sandra moved back to Los Angeles. With Myrtha we discuss just us and how we've grown since meeting as freshman in high school. Prepare for LOTS of laughs. Also we list out why we think our friendship has lasted nearly 10 years. Thank you so much to Myrtha for all the support she has given and also for being a good sport when we talk chambre. WE LOVE YOU. Links/Enlaces Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Register to Vote @myyyrthaaa on IG

We are so excited to collaborate with our good friend @GataSalvaje415 host of the Las Basureras Podcast and the creator of Gata Salvaje Merch. Gata and us break down FOUR California propositions we feel are very important to us personally. We also want this to motivate people to engage with their local and state politics outside of major federal elections. PLEASE register to vote if you have that priviledge and also try to motivate others and provide educational resources for many people that are rejected access. A HUGE THANK YOU to our good friend Gata who has been a strong supporter of us since day one! Links/Enlaces Register to Vote Our Conclusions Yes on 2 No on 6 Yes on 8 Yes on 10  Las Basureras Podcast Gata Salvaje Merch @GataSalvaje415 on IG @LasBasureras on IG

Hey everyone! This week Sandra interviews Nicole Ramsey. Nicole is a first generation PhD Candidate in African Diaspora studies doing work on Belize/Belizeans in the Diaspora, and Black Central America(ns) and the Caribbean at UC Berkeley. She is also a Music enthusiast that uses popular culture and popular music as a form of diasporic education. In the episode Nicole explains to us the history of Garveyism in Central America, her academic journey, her upbringing in LA South Central's Little Belize, and the importance of Afro-Carribean women in her research. Thank you to Nicole for being a great guest! Links Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Featured Song: Splinters - Shal Marshall Nicole's Instagram: @hereisnicky Nicole's Twitter: @Nicole_D_Rams Pablo Lopez Oro's Twitter: @BlackCatrachoBK Asia Leed's Twitter: @AsiaLeeds Lara Putnam Juliet Hooker's Twitter: @CreoleProf Robert Hill's Bio Robert Hill presenting on Samuel Haynes Colin Grant's "Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey" Anne Macpherson's "From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982 (Engendering Latin America)" Leela Vernon's Bio Leela Vernon's Eulogy Tamika Burgess's Afro-Latina Empowerment Monthly Newsletter "Es Mi Cultura"

Hey everyone! This week Sandra is joined by Gabriela Aleman, aka Salvi-Nica artist @smugmorenita, to discuss how they use online community organizing to assist their offline community organizing. Gaby is extremely active in San Francisco Mission District's local political and community organizing landscape. They both discuss the privlidges of community organizing, perfromative activism, the non-profit industrial complex, and the steps to begin working locally for you neighborhood. Please support Gaby online and Chavalos Danzas Por Nicaragua! Links Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Featured Song: When I'm With Him - Empress Of Gaby's Instagram: @smugmorenita Gaby's Twitter: @smugmorenita Chavalos Danzas Por Nicaragua's Instagram

Warning: Rough Audio Ahead! Hey everyone! Today we have a new installment in our interview series. Our guest, Melissa Vida, is a freelance journalist and the new editor in chief for the Central American Empowerment Network. On top of this, Melissa created CentAm Curator, a newsletter aimed at bringing relevant Central American news to the forefront. Join us as we discuss with Melissa her reasons for creating a newsletter, the process of obtaining Central American news from Central American sources, as well as a discussion on international relations and the future of Central America. Links Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Featured Song: Aguitaecoco - Simon Grossmann CentAm Curator Newsletter Nicaraguan Protesters and Journalists face Violent Attacks on the Streets and Online by Melissa Vida from globalvoices.org Central American Empowerment Network Melissa Vida's Twitter Melissa Vida's Works Plaza Publica (Guatemala News Source) Nomada (Guatemala News Source) El Pulso (Honduras News Source) Contra Corriente (Honduras News Source) El Faro (El Salvador News Source) Upside Down World Truthout

Hey everyone! Today we have a very special episode! Sandra was able to interview Federico Valiente, the Senior Director of Marketing for Pollo Campero while on her family trip to Nashville! Pollo Campero is expanding to Nashville and celebrated their grand opening a few weeks ago. We discuss the prevalence of Pollo Campero in our lives, especially as children of Central Americans. We also discuss the importance and relevance of a Central American buying force as well as other businesses associated with Central Americans in the US. The businesses we mention are mostly located in Los Angeles since we mostly know LA. Huge shout out to Pollo Campero for working with us and for taking the time to talk to us! Links Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Pollo Campero Opening in Nashville Pollo Campero's Website Pollo Campero's Facebook Pollo Campero's Instagram Pollo Campero's Twitter Pollo Campero in the USA El Salvador Corridor La Guatemalteca Bakery Super Mini Market in South Gate (Nicaraguan store) Petition to Save Liborio Market Our Listener Survey

This is part 2 of a roundatable discussion we had at Sandra's pad in Oakland! We gathered 5 Central American Bay Area artists and curators to discuss with each other their art, identity, and navigating the Bay art world. We have Marabet Morales, a Chapina from East Oakland that started the Bay Area Central American Writers Group. Gabriela Alemán, San Francisco Mission-born Nica/Salvi visual artist and local Mission community organizer. Plinio Hernández, born in El Salvador then migrated to North Oakland and Berkeley, a multi-media artist and art teacher that also does work with migrants at FM4 Paso Libre in Guadalajara, Mexico. Breena Nuñez, a Afro-Guatemalan/Salvadoran comic book artist with content about her life and connecting to Central America as a Afro-Latina womxn from San Bruno. Last but not least, Jeannine Ventura who was born in the Inland Empire of California, but has lived in the Bay for the last eight years. Jeannine is the Editor in Chief at Undertone Magazine, Undertone is a creative collective dedicated to supporting womxn of color, their art, and their stories and host of the podcast¡Oye, Nenx! Thank you all for speaking to us and giving out hella good vibes. This is part 2 or 2 so please listen to last week's episode! Links/Enlaces Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Marabet's Instagram Breena's Instagram Gabriela's Instagram Plinio's Instagram Jeannine's Instagram Undertone Magazine's Instagram Our Listener Survey

This is an episode going down in ¡Puchica Vos! Podcast history. We gathered 5 Central American Bay Area artists and curators to discuss with each other their art, identity, and navigating the Bay art world. We have Marabet Morales, a Chapina from East Oakland that started the Bay Area Central American Writers Group. Gabriela Alemán, San Francisco Mission-born Nica/Salvi visual artist and local Mission community organizer. Plinio Hernández, born in El Salvador then migrated to North Oakland and Berkeley, a multi-media artist and art teacher that also does work with migrants at FM4 Paso Libre in Guadalajara, Mexico. Breena Nuñez, a Afro-Guatemalan/Salvadoran comic book artist with content about her life and connecting to Central America as a Afro-Latina womxn from San Bruno. Last but not least, Jeannine Ventura who was born in the Inland Empire of California, but has lived in the Bay for the last eight years. Jeannine is the Editor in Chief at Undertone Magazine, Undertone is a creative collective dedicated to supporting womxn of color, their art, and their stories and host of the podcast¡Oye, Nenx! Thank you all fro speaking to us and giving out hella good vibes. This is part 1 or 2 so please stay tuned for more next week! Links/Enlaces Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Marabet's Instagram Breena's Instagram Gabriela's Instagram Plinio's Instagram Jeannine's Instagram Undertone Magazine's Instagram FM4 Paso Libre's Instagram Our Listener Survey

¡Ya ha pasado un tiempo! Sandra estaba en México visitando a su familia y pudo entrevistar a Luis Enrique González Araiza, abogado de FM4 Paso Libre, que es un refugio para migrantes en Guadalajara, Jalisco. FM4 sirve en gran medida a los migrantes centroamericanos en su viaje a través de México. Discuten las políticas que afectan la migración en México y la información sobre los patrones de quienes cruzan el país. Esta entrevista es en español, mientras que la introducción es en inglés. ¡Apoye a FM4 Paso Libre y a las organizaciones que ayudan a los migrantes en su viaje! Wow it has been a while! Sandra was in Mexico visiting her family and was able to interview, Luis Enrique González Araiza, a lawyer at FM4 Paso Libre which is a migrant shelter in Guadalajara. FM4 largely serves Central American migrants on their journey through Mexico. They discuss the policies that affect migration in Mexico and information on the patterns of those crossing through the country. This interview is in Spanish while the introduction is in English. Please support FM4 Paso Libre and organizations that assist migrants on their journey! Links/Enlaces Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro REPORT: Transit migration through the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area: actors, challenges and perspectives from experience FM4 Paso Libre INFORME: Migración en tránsito por la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara FM4 Paso Libre's Website FM4 Paso Libre's Youtube Channel FM4 Paso Libre's Twitter FM4 Paso Libre's Instagram FM4 Paso Libre's Facebook Plinio's Instagram Plinio's Website Our Listener Survey

This week Sandra interviews Jeevs for our Central American Diaspora series. Jeevs grew up in Belize City, but is currently studying Film in Jamaica. He has an amazing webseries called, "Homegrown Belize", on Belizean cuisine, artists, and businesses that give a local perspective. Jeevs discusses Kriol idenitity and his firm Carib and Central American identity. They also discuss environmentalism and its importance to Central America and the Caribbean. This is one of our best interviews yet! Links Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro TR Shine - "Hard Year" Jeevs's Youtube Channel Jeevs's Twitter Our Listener Survey

We both feel hurt because of child separation, ICE, our own family immigration situations, and the disregard for the lives of people wanting to survive. Links Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Jesse Baez ft. Fuego - "Grasa" CNN: There are 2,300 migrant kids spread across the US. What happens to them next? NPR: Drumpf's Executive Order On Family Separation: What It Does And Doesn't Do Our Listener Survey

We have a feature interview with Yanna, aka @mellamoyanna, the CEO of Brown Sugar and Canela. Yanna is a proud Garifuna woman from North Carolina with Honduran heritage. Brown Sugar and Canela is an apparel company for strong women with a strong heritage based around Afro-Latinidad and Central American-ness. Sandra met up with Yanna on a trip to North Carolina to discuss her apparel company, #CentralAmericanTwitter, Garifuna identity, Leo men, and misogynoir in the Latinx community. Thanks so much to Yanna for being so down to engage with us!! Links Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro Kez - "Hello" Our Listener Survey Brown Sugar and Canela Website Yanna's Twitter aka @mellamoyanna

Just updates on where we've been, twitter tings, the value of mistakes, and loving people that are assiting you in your growth.

HIIII this week we're returning with our Central American Diaspora series! Our guest this week is Stephanie, a PhD canidate in Psychology currently in Michican. However, Stephanie was raised in Utah in a 95+% Mormon community. She unpacks her experience understanding the whiteness that affected how she saw herself for many years. Sam and her go into the effects of pop culture on self esteem and wokeness as a commodity.

Hello everyone were bring back the cachitos to talk about the ongoing situations in Belize and Nicaragua. We discuss at lengths the neo-colonial fight between Guatemala and Belize which is heavily racialized. Also we discuss the government suppression and murders of activists protesting the Nicaraguan Social Security reform. We hope for the safety of those in Nicaragua and those with loved ones there as well.

uhhh we hate ICE, Border Patrol, Detention Centers and the Department of Homeland Security. We go in deep as to why there are countless incididents that the US is using all four agencies to commit human rights abuses. We also go into ways to help fight DHS and support the undocumented community. FUCK ICE.

Firstly, we apologize for the sound in this ep, but don't let that take anything away from our marvelous guest Casey Parris-Daley aka @MyDaleyVibes on Twitter. Casey is from Atlanta, but also lived several years in both Jamaica and Panama, where his parents are from. Casey speaks about coming to his own queerness while living in both Panama and Jamaica and his life growing up in the South. Sam asks a spicy question on what is genuine allyship in a time where identity is now a commodity.

Why is it important to protect yourself online? Sam and Sandra discuss the recent scrutiny on data obtained through social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. There has been a large history of surveillance on communities of color and technology only makes it easier. Prepare your fave tinfoil hat for this episode!

Are we going to play Korean-Pop two weeks in a row? We sure are! This week Sandra interviews Lucía from Tampa, Florida. Sandra connected to Lucía because of K-Pop, but learned so much more about growing up Guatemalan in Florida, her conversion to Islam and opening up over Caso Cerrado. Get ready for a lengthyyyyy discussion over K-Pop stan accounts, fan culture, and the K-Pop industrial complex.

Hello~ This week we're answering q's we were sent! We talk about fake stanning, getting into a fight, books we want to read. Its great to just chill and be a bit more open about ourselves. Lol.

We're speaking off the dome! Sam and Sandra have been real busy and they just wanted to relax and talk about multiple identities or personas that we hold. The conversation goes many directions especially in how the internet has allowed us to live an additional life.

This week we are so honored to have Sophia, the creator of the @osothebosso Instagram bi-lingual tenants rights novela, to educate us on tenants rights in Los Angeles. We also have long discussions surrounding grassroots organizing, gentrification, gentefication, homeownership, and homeslessness. Sophia is so amazing and y'all should keep up with her!

We have the 2nd installment of our mini-series featuring Central Americans from non-Central American hubs. Oliva is a PhD Immunology candidate at UMass Medical. Olivia has a full Massuchusetts identity and we use her amazing achievements to discuss misogyny in post-graduate education, the best affordable pallette, and the Salvadoran Seventh Day Adventist identity.

This is another hot take. We relate Naruto to Toxic Masculinity, but we also go into the real effects it has on our personal lives and the world around us. CW: Conversations about sexual trauma, violence, and extremism.

Hi y'all we're starting a new series on our show based on the diaspora outside of typical Central American hubs like California, Houston, or Washington D.C. We will be interviewing and getting to just hang out with Central Americans all over to establish relationships and friendships. However, the interviews will be one on one with either Sam or Sandra each episode. The first person we're hanging out with is Patrick Mullen-Coyoy! He is a poet and is often on #CentralAmericanTwitter and beautifully describes his love for his queerness, Michigan, and Chapingo hertitage. Patrick also hits on a great point in the importance of a central archiving for cultural works from the Central American diaspora. 

Sam and Sandra are SOOOOO excited to start their engines for the new season of Rupaul's Drag Race All Stars. Before Sam and Sandra toot and boot the entrance looks or go into show predictions, they talk about the herstory of drag. They go into the important role of trans folx of color and the legacy Rupaul has left on drag.

We love our long episodes so were giving you more! We both just graduated from college and now being out for 6 months into the "working world", we look back. Drugs, sex, love, yt experimentation, and how univesities fail students of color.

Were bringing you a long and solemn episode this week on the topic of performative activism. We bring in a new segment and new Twitter hashtag.

Get ready to welcome our first guest on the podcast, Wilfredo, aka @Wilfreyfrey on Twitter. He was ahead of the times and was the first to use the #CentralAmericanTwitter hashtag, but he tells us the true tea on how the space took years to create! We also send lot's of love to other key people in creating the foundation of #CentralAmericanTwitter to become the amazing online space for Central American engagement.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ¡PUCHICA VOS! We're reunited and laid out our goals and hopes for the podcast, ourselves, and the diaspora. We discuss our astrology predictions and what scents should be in our baño.

Esto es para todas las mujeres centroamericanas. We have another playlist for y'all! Sam and Sandra go through the 7 countries to present talented womxn and femme energyyyy. It is quite lit.

We wanted to chill it out this week and talk about some random things on our mind. We have a love and hate relationship with dating apps and online dating, and affect us constantly! We discuss 5 dating apps and our experiences with each one. Topics range from automatic left swipes, ghosting, and the shrinking of queer femme spaces.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Honduras and Hondurans around the world, and so we wanted to provide some exposure by talking about what is going on in Honduras after the election held on November 26. Since the election, mass protests, a dusk to dawn curfew (which has now been lifted), and other intriguing developments have occured, but have been overlooked in mass media. Check this episode out to get some context to Honduras and Honduran elections, as well as to learn about the developing situation in Honduras. 

Get ready to catch some HEAAAT with these new mics! Sam and Sandra discuss the blind eye Mexico and Shitcanxs turn on discrimination, crime, and hegemony enforced on Central Americans. Topics range from fútbol, Coco, and aliens. Let's get ready to rumble!

Join us as we go to the 3rd Annual Central American International Film Festival at the Los Angeles Film School. First few minutes are in a vlog style format, and then we go in on our three favorite films. Huge shoutout to all the incredible artists that were showcased at the film festival! Also, we plan to regularly upload new episodes on Mondays, so start out the week with us as we talk shit on just about anything!! 

Happy day-after-Black-Friday, or as it's known literally everywhere else in the world - Saturday. In the first ten minutes of this cachito, we talk about actually publishing the pod and the incredibly warm reception we received. We shout out a few people who shouted us out as well.

We chat about Temporary Protected Status and the movement around #DefendTPS. Data provided by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Sandra's own digging around. Sam's sad voice provided by Sam. Discussion is organic, locally grown and free of GMOs. (Gross Machista Overtones)

We grooooove to some music created by Salvadoran and Salvadoran American musicians to learn about singers and folks that made radiowave history~ Disclaimer - In this episode, Sam incorrectly says that Josue Diaz is a Salvadoran artist, when in fact he is Peruvian. Sam relied on the internet and since google said that Josue Diaz was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sam trusted this but he should've checked his "facts." Josue Diaz is still an artist worthy of being listened to and his music is still amazing, he's just not Salvadoran as Sam said he was.

Hello~ This is our introduction to ¡Puchica Vos! Hosts Sam and Sandra talk about how they met, who they are, what puchica vos means, and their goals for growth with this podcast. Sandra displays her forever pettiness and Sam has an interesting encounter with a supply closet.