If you’ve been feeling anxious about what’s happening to the Latino community right now — this episode is for you.

Javier Marín is a Venezuelan immigrant, media entrepreneur, co-owner of El Tiempo Latino, and author of Live from America: How Latino TV Conquered the United States. But more than any of those titles, he is someone who has spent decades studying a truth that most people don’t know: this has all happened before.

English-only mandates. Mass deportations. Immigrants thrown in cages regardless of legal status. Corporate America refusing to acknowledge our purchasing power. The word “Hispanic” invented not by us, but by a president looking for votes. None of this is new.

And yet — here we are. 62 million strong. Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl. Spanish the second most spoken language in the country.

This conversation is part history lesson, part wake-up call, and part exhale. Because when you know where you came from, the present becomes a little less terrifying.

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Some notable moments from this episode are:

00:00 — Intro & Meeting Javier Marin
01:53 — Leaving Venezuela & Finding Media in America
05:20 — Why Spanish-Language Media Mattered
08:50 — The Hidden History of Spanish in the U.S.
11:20 — How Univision Was Secretly Built
16:16 — Censorship, Assimilation & Anti-Spanish Policies
20:20 — Hispanic vs Latino: Who Created the Labels?
24:40 — The Corporate Battle for Spanish Television
30:30 — The Judge Who Saved Spanish TV in America
44:36 — Why This History Still Matters Today

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