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In spite of all the obstacles and everything I did achieve
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enough of a, a degree of success that um I'm gonna be around
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Folks are gonna turn on the late show and speed is gonna be on
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Let's begin the way we do with all of these interviews with
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your name and, and nationality.
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I am Carlos Enrique Carrasco Mandeville.
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You can't be Latino and not have four names, you know, and I'm
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from Panama at uh at, at, at what age Carlos did you come to the
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Around age 20 might have been 21 2021 prior to coming.
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Did you ever envision yourself leaving Panama for the US?
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Well, what happened is that I got exposed to American culture
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down there because when I was growing up, um the, the US was
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a big presence there.
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The, the United States has been a presence in Panama, like
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really a presence since the California gold rush.
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A lot of people don't realize this but the California gold
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rush happened through Panama because it was a lot easier then
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to steam down from the east coast, go overland in Panama.
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Panama's only 38 miles wide and then steam up to San Francisco
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to go do the gold rush.
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So in that traffic, it was kind of like the first time that Americans
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really started to uh establish a presence there.
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