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I'm Latif Nasser. This is Radiolab. And today on the show, we have a story from our archives. It's about a group of kids growing up in Cuba in the 90s. And these kids, who had great taste in music, by the way, they decided to do something extreme. They decided to escape the system by any means necessary.
We wanted to play it for you now in part because it's Hispanic Heritage Month, but also because of what's going on in Cuba now. In 2025, Cuba is facing a major economic crisis. There are power outages, food shortages, protests.
The government is punishing dissent and public criticism, all of which is similar to the situation that was playing out in the 90s when our story begins and that these kids were directly responding to. So we're going to play you this episode, and then we have a quick update for you at the end. So here you are, Lost Freakies. Wait, you're listening?
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Hey, I'm Chad Abumrad. This is Radio Lab. Robert's traveling today, so it's just me. And today we have a very different kind of story than we've ever done. It comes from a journalist and filmmaker named Luis Treas. And an interesting thing kind of happened as we were reporting this.
Sounds pretty clear. Yeah. It's got to be a landline.
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