Martín Escobari

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884 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 25 Nov

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So what are my traumas?

Some are personal and some are generational.

Generational traumas, on my mother's side, Jewish family had to flee the Russian empire through Romania, then Argentina, then Bolivia.

So fleeing, leaving everything behind.

From my father's side, very wealthy, landed oligarchy of Bolivia.

In 1952, there's a revolution.

They lose everything and their house and farms get burned down and they almost die.

When my father was a teenager.

So on both sides, there's a sense of loss.

and escape that is very present and decide to become communists and doctors.

They're both doctors in public hospitals in a little town in Bolivia.

So that's their trauma, which I relate to the Cultural Revolution.

And there are religious, not atheist.

In my personal life, trauma comes from two places for me.

One is I grew up in Bolivia in the 80s, and that was chaos.

Bolivia in the 80s, seven presidents in 10 years, including four coup d'etats.

We had inflation.

You got 5% inflation.

We had 35,000% inflation.

It was a...

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