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Audio Mío: Secuestros en San Miguel with Karla Souza

Welcome to Audio Mío! In this episode, Karla Souza joins us to discuss the shocking true story behind ‘Secuestros en San Miguel’. Tune in to learn more about Karla and the wild twists behind a tale that shook the community of San Miguel de Allende.
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Show transcript
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I admire you so much.
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You are everything I want to be.
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Shouldn't you be? Los San Miguel caves.
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Welcome to Audio Mio.
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I'm your host Ana Barraza,
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and today we're joined by the voice behind the true crime audio
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drama Sequeestros and San Miguel.
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Please welcome actor Carla Sosa.
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Oh. Now please summarize your audio drama in 15 seconds.
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Start the timer. OK,
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sequeros in San Miguel,
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after 10 years, San Miguel has been having sequeros.
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They don't know who it is.
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Who is it? Oh,
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it's their friendly neighbor like Mr.
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Rogers type, but what?
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How is the dictatorship Pinochet in Chile involved?
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How is the prison break involved?
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Who is their neighbor?
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Oh, that was intense.
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Audio dramas are different than audiobooks,
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right? Audio books is one person narrating the story,
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which I've done, and it's fun,
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and audio drama is like a bunch of actors were reenacting the
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scenes. There's sounds and they set the.
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Stage and it's kind of like a movie for your ears.
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How do you tell a story about corruption and identity and make
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sure that you're showing Mexico in a fair and respectful way.
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Eddy Galindo and Roger Vila are the writers of this project.
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They had done their homework.
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There was so much historical context.
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It's staying away from stereotypes and really digging into the details,
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the real life events,
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the people, and it's really doing justice to Mexico and Latin
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America. For me it was really important to also within my
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narration of it to be as objective as possible.
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Did you anticipate any of the story's twists?
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You think you're kind of going into this thing about like kidnappings
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and then you realize,
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oh, it's like the Mr.
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Rogers character. He's a pillar of the community.
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He's been with your kids.
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He plans the parties.
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You go to his house,
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he comes to your house,
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and he's the one that's been planning these kidnappings and it's terrifying
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I'm never inviting anybody to my house until I do a
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deep dive deep dive who they are.
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I looked you up before I came.
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I looked you up.
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Since we're both actors,
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we're gonna do some improv.
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OK. There's a bunch of scenarios in here.
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You're gonna pick one and we're gonna act it out.
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Just one slight note.
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It's a telenovela. Action.
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Maria de los Dolores Perez.
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What are you doing in my closet?
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You weren't supposed to be back in town so soon.
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Encarnacion. Why are you wearing my clothes?
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Hey, I'm breaking them in for you.
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I want it to look.
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Don't come near me.
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Do you have my underwear on?
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The pink one with the little ruffles?
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I admire you so much from afar and from close.
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You are everything I want to be in life.
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Shouldn't you be happy?
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Carla, have you ever done some investigating work?
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Maybe play a detective.
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I, I, yeah,
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today we're gonna put those skills to use.
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Are you ready for this?
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I am ready. To the board.
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OK, Detective Barry,
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Clue number one. What do you think?
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Is that a palm tree I see.
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It's a palm tree.
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It's a forest, it's a big palm trees.
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Can I get an audible?
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What are we thinking?
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I'm thinking, I don't know.
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I need another clue.
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We need another clue.
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I got you. Clue number 2.
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That looks like Coachella.
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Are we talking something,
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some music something. We got it.
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We're getting closer. Clue number 3.
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We're talking an event now we're event and it's a big one
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It's a big one.
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It's a big one like a Grammy.
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Does somebody have something about palm trees in their song or their
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Outfit? Oh, the JLo Versace dress at the Grammys.
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Oh, detective, I believe we cracked the case.
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We've reached the afterward.
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I wanna know what makes Secustos in San Miguel stand out as
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an audio drama that's worth listening to.
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This is an intense gripping adventure where you're gonna get your little
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historical, you know,
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Pinochet dictator, guerrilla fighting,
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prison break, sequesros kidnappings,
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true life. Cultural both in Spanish and English.
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I mean audibles got it all for you in sequestros in San
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Miguel. Make sure to listen to Sequestros in San Miguel available
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in English and Spanish only on Audible.
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Carla, thank you so much for joining us.
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It's been a pleasure.
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Thank you. Resume the audio drama.
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Pareia quelos and Migueles tendrian casar queotravezmocao bars.