Obscure Latin American history, capitalism and corruption. Each week, your hosts (and twins) Carmen and Cristina, will tell each other a story about Latino/Latine history, capitalism or corruption and sometimes all three. Episodes every Thursday. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/historias-unknown--6253658/support .
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Signup to Generate a PitchObscure Latin American history, capitalism and corruption. Each week, your hosts (and twins) Carmen and Cristina, will tell each other a story about Latino/Latine history, capitalism or corruption and sometimes all three. Episodes every Thursday.
Recent episodes include "A Brief History of El PRI and Mexico's Dirty War" (16 October 2026, 47 minutes), "A Brief (and recent) History of Border Patrol and ICE Abuse" (24 September 2026, 43 minutes), and "When Futbol Got Political Part 2" (3 September 2026, 37 minutes).
Historias Unknown publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 166 episodes.
Booking probability for Historias Unknown is 44%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Historias Unknown requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Historias Unknown's contact route on record: verified email.
Historias Unknown is a history show with 166 episodes published.
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Episode #159
On October 2, 1968, the Mexican military opened fire on students who were protesting. This dark event in Mexico's history became known as the Tlatelolco Massacre and takes place during Mexico's Dirty War. Before...
Episode #158
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance completed an analysis of ICE and Border Patrol agents who committed sexual or violent offenses against women and children. Their report presents the data, which includes an alarming pattern...
Episode #157
"Keep politics out of sports" is something heard a little too often, but these two have never really been separate. To further show that, Cristina tells Carmen about another very political football match, Argentina vs...
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Carmen and Cristina are taking a summer break! They will be back with a new episode on the first Thursday of September. If you have topic suggestions, feel free to email Historiasunknownpodcast@gmail.com or use the...
Episode #156
"Keep politics out of sports", is something heard very often, especially right now as the world cup is taking place. These two, especially futbol and politics, have never really been seperate and to show that, Cristina...
Episode #155
Guadalupe "Lupe" Villalobos Briseño was a civil rights activist who led the Kitayama Carnation Strike in 1968-1969, at the height of the Chicano movement. If you have topic suggestions, feel free to email...
Episode #154
What They Stole by Paige Towers blends together a true crime case from her hometown, a familicide, geopolitics, history, and so much more. The synopsis: In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and...
Episode #153
Joseph Doherty fulfilled a childhood dream when, after graduating high school and joining Maryknoll, a Catholic missionary society, he was assigned to work in Chile. He was present for the coup, in 1973, when the...
Episode #152
Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980 is a pioneering analysis of Mexico’s efforts to curb the outflow of its citizens to the United States. It spotlights the miscalculation of...
Episode #151
Berta Cáceres was a Lenca indigenous leader, an environmental activist, and a human rights defender. But she was also so much more than that: a beauty pageant queen, a revolutionary, and a mother. In part 4, Cristina...
Episode #150
Berta Cáceres was a Lenca indigenous leader, an environmental activist, and a human rights defender. But she was also so much more than that: a beauty pageant queen, a revolutionary (she joined the FMLN during the...
Episode #149
Berta Cáceres was a Lenca indigenous leader, an environmental activist, and a human rights defender. But she was also so much more than that: a beauty pageant queen, a revolutionary (she joined the FMLN during the...
Episode #148
Berta Cáceres was a Lenca indigenous leader, an environmental activist, and a human rights defender. But she was also so much more than that: a beauty pageant queen, a revolutionary (she joined the FMLN during the...
Episode #147
The birth control pill revolutionized women’s independence in the US and so many places, but came at the cost of Puerto Rican women, who were experimented on without consent in the birth control trials of the 1950’s...
Episode #146
For years, she was considered to be the only woman to have been legally hanged in the state of Texas, but today, this is not the case. And yes, she was Mexican. Her name was Josefa (Chipita) Rodriguez. Cristina tells...
Episode #145
Joe Arpaio was the Maricopa County Sheriff from 1993 to 2017. During his tenure, he enacted the worst racial profiling against Latinos, ruled over the county jails with abuse, misused funds, which led to numerous...
Episode #144
One of the largest school boycotts took place in NYC on Feb 3, 1964, almost half a million participated, calling for quality schools for Black and Latino students. It was called freedom day and despite being one of the...
Episode #143
Now I Surrender radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.” In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s...
Episode #142
Marcos Xiorro was an enslaved Black man who led an uprising against sugarcane plantation owners in 1821 Puerto Rico. Cristina tells Carmen about Marcos Xiorro and a brief history of slavery in PR. Then, they do Latin...
Episode #141
Xica Manicongo was one of the first to be targeted by the Brazilian inquisition and a trans woman. At least, today she is seen as a trans woman. She’s also known as Franscisco or Fransisca . She was kidnaped from Congo...
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