As we celebrate the release of season three of Futuro Studios’ hit-show La Brega, we take you back to where it all first started: Season 1, Episode 1.
Host Alana Casanova-Burgess sets out to define the many meanings of “la brega”—one of them being the struggle—and its ubiquity among Boricuas.
Alana takes us from potholes, to protests and metaphors, to compile all of the possible meanings that lie within “la brega”, she looks at how it sometimes asks too much of Puerto Ricans and how, at the same time, the word itself has an innate sense of hope.
You can listen to La Brega: Campeones on your favorite podcast platform including YouTube!
Featured original art by Fernando Norat.
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La Brega Host: Alana Casanova-Burgess
Written and reported by La Brega’s Alana Casanova-Burgess with help from Ezequiel Andino Rodríguez
Editor: Marlon Bishop
Fact Checkers: Istra Pacheco and María Soledad Davila Calero
Engineers: Stephanie Lebow, Elishiba Itoob, Leah Shaw Dameron, Rosana Caban and Gabriela Baez. With additional mixing from Julia Caruso
Production Managers: Jessica Ellis, Victoria Estrada and Francis Poon
Latino USA Managing Editor: Fernanda Echavarri
Latino USA Executive Producers: Peniley Ramirez and Maria Hinojosa
La Brega Executive Producers: Marlon Bishop and Alana Casanova-Burgess
Social Media: Luis Luna, Paloma Perez and Anhelo Reyes
Episode Adapted for Latino USA by Nicole Rothwell and Reynaldo Leaños Jr.
