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Dec 2017
15m 19s

Memorias y milanesas

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Roberto Herrscher was one of the many Argentinians who fought against Great Britain in the Falklands War in the 1980s. Decades later, Herrscher returns to the islands to confront his memories and ends up making an unlikely friend.


Study materials and a transcript of this episode are available at https://bit.ly/3uh4KqO.

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