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Ilan Stavans on Tertulia: Neruda, Vallejo, Dreamers & DACA

New England Public Media | By Raquel Obregon
Published September 18, 2017 at 2:02 PM EDT
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Tertulia's guest on September 17, 2017, wasIlan Stavans, professor at Amherst College as well as an editor, translator and essayist. In celebration of the National Hispanic Heritage Month, he read poetry by poets Pablo Neruda, from Chile and César Vallejo, from Perú, in Spanish and it's English translation. He also expressed his concern about the future of the Dreamers and the DACA program.

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Raquel Obregon
Raquel was born in Lima, Peru. She graduated from the University of San Marcos, where she studied Mathematics, and subsequently became a high school math teacher. She began working at New England Public Media in 2004, as the co-host of Tertulia. In 2010 Raquel took over as full-time host of the program.
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