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This week Monica and Camila spoke with Vancouver based theatre artist and proud leftist, Carmen Aguirre!  Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright. She’s a Core Artist at Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre, and co-founder of The Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition or CALTAC. She has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, and she’s the author of 2 best selling memoirs. For our merienda this week, Monica enjoyed those little peruvian chocolates again and Camila ate a Colombian manjar de leche con bocadilla de guayaba! So tasty. Here’s a recipe on how to make your own Colombian arequipe/ manjar de leche/ dulce de leche at home!    Show notes: Electric Company Theatre, based in Vancouver  An article from Jacobin on, in Carmen’s words, “ultra right wing dictatorships” in Latin America - ‘Latin America’s Right-Wing Turn’ B by Guillermo Calderon  Rumble Theatre, basd in Vancouver  Carmen’s first memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter Canada Reads, an an