Carlos hunts down the origin of the chupacabra, then explains how U.S. imperialism and
Puerto Rico’s many crises gave rise to the bloodsucker.


Follow Carlos @vaquero2XL


Sources:
Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore by Benjamin
Radford
Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacle in Cuba and Puerto Rico,
1898-1956 by Reinaldo L. Román
En Qué Quedó Ep. 6 “El Chupacabras”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2r9ISXwgY7zTpWj2EJWcF1
Radio Ambulante “El vampiro entre nosotros”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hvdSD4aXHwoOWoMYAdN9x
Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post-Cold War Years by
William A Calvo-Quirós
https://web.archive.org/web/20230814111741/http://www.barriology.com/uploads/2/3/2/7/
23276452/calvo-quiros_sucking_vulnerability_rev.pdf
El Chupacabra: Icon of Resistance to US Imperialism
Species (1995) dir. Roger Donaldson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGZnLsPSRc
La Operación (1982) dir. Ana María García https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJoWMbRxvM&t=36s
La Operación -Background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6XEuu_auR8&t=8s
https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/se-registran-dos-ataques-del-chupac
abras/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/vieques-puerto-rico-us-navy-base-traini
ng
https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Portals/68/Documents/Business-Lines/Environmental/Enviro
nmental-Restoration/NAVFAC-Atlantic/Vieques/Vieques_Fact_Sheet_03_Depleted_Uran
ium_in_LIA_Eng.pdf
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/elyunque/recreation/discover-history/us-military-and-el-yunq
ue-national-forest
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24816374-the-history-of-the-us-department-
of-defense-programs-for-the-testing-evaluation-and-storage-of-tactical-herbicides-agent-
orange-in-pr/?q=puerto+rico&mode=document#document/p5
https://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/otros/las-grandes-sequ-as-que-marcaron-a-puerto-
rico-durante-el-siglo-xx/article_e6a37bce-5269-4040-836d-799a04358fc2.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/12/26/mystery-creature-ravages-p
uerto-rican-livestock/b7704250-dae0-4fa3-a886-561db637b463/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-03-mn-9730-story.html
“Monsters and Messiahs by Mike Davis”
 “Beast of Borikén" by Julio Anta, Daniel IriZarri, Patricio Delpeche, and Lucas Gattoni

Carlos hunts down the origin of the chupacabra, then explains how U.S. imperialism and Puerto Rico&rsquo;s many crises gave rise to the bloodsucker.
 Follow Carlos @vaquero2XL
 Sources:
<ul>
<li>Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore by Benjamin Radford</li>
<li>Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacle in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956 by Reinaldo L. Rom&aacute;n</li>
<li>En Qu&eacute; Qued&oacute; Ep. 6 &ldquo;El Chupacabras&rdquo; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2r9ISXwgY7zTpWj2EJWcF1">https://open.spotify.com/episode/2r9ISXwgY7zTpWj2EJWcF1</a></li>
<li>Radio Ambulante &ldquo;El vampiro entre nosotros&rdquo; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hvdSD4aXHwoOWoMYAdN9x">https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hvdSD4aXHwoOWoMYAdN9x</a></li>
<li>Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post-Cold War Years by William A Calvo-Quir&oacute;s</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230814111741/http://www.barriology.com/uploads/2/3/2/7/%2023276452/calvo-quiros_sucking_vulnerability_rev.pdf">https://web.archive.org/web/20230814111741/http://www.barriology.com/uploads/2/3/2/7/</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230814111741/http://www.barriology.com/uploads/2/3/2/7/%2023276452/calvo-quiros_sucking_vulnerability_rev.pdf">23276452/calvo-quiros_sucking_vulnerability_rev.pdf</a></li>
<li>El Chupacabra: Icon of Resistance to US Imperialism</li>
<li>Species (1995) dir. Roger Donaldson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGZnLsPSRc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGZnLsPSRc</a></li>
<li>La Operaci&oacute;n (1982) dir. Ana Mar&iacute;a Garc&iacute;a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJoWMbRxvM&amp;t=36s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJoWMbRxvM&amp;t=36s</a></li>
<li>La Operaci&oacute;n -Background <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6XEuu_auR8&amp;t=8s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6XEuu_auR8&amp;t=8s</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/se-registran-dos-ataques-del-chupac%20abras/">https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/se-registran-dos-ataques-del-chupac</a> <a href="https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/se-registran-dos-ataques-del-chupac%20abras/">abras/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/vieques-puerto-rico-us-navy-base-traini%20ng">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/vieques-puerto-rico-us-navy-base-traini</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/vieques-puerto-rico-us-navy-base-traini%20ng">ng</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Portals/68/Documents/Business-Lines/Environmental/Enviro%20nmental-Restoration/NAVFAC-Atlantic/Vieques/Vieques_Fact_Sheet_03_Depleted_Uran%20ium_in_LIA_Eng.pdf">https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Portals/68/Documents/Business-Lines/Environmental/Enviro</a> <a href="https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Portals/68/Documents/Business-Lines/Environmental/Enviro%20nmental-Restoration/NAVFAC-Atlantic/Vieques/Vieques_Fact_Sheet_03_Depleted_Uran%20ium_in_LIA_Eng.pdf">nmental-Restoration/NAVFAC-Atlantic/Vieques/Vieques_Fact_Sheet_03_Depleted_Uran</a> <a href="https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Portals/68/Documents/Business-Lines/Environmental/Enviro%20nmental-Restoration/NAVFAC-Atlantic/Vieques/Vieques_Fact_Sheet_03_Depleted_Uran%20ium_in_LIA_Eng.pdf">ium_in_LIA_Eng.pdf</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/elyunque/recreation/discover-history/us-military-and-el-yunq%20ue-national-forest">https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/elyunque/recreation/discover-history/us-military-and-el-yunq</a> <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/elyunque/recreation/discover-history/us-military-and-el-yunq%20ue-national-forest">ue-national-forest</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24816374-the-history-of-the-us-department-%20of-defense-programs-for-the-testing-evaluation-and-storage-of-tactical-herbicides-agent-%20orange-in-pr/?q=puerto+rico&amp;mode=document#document/p5">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24816374-the-history-of-the-us-department-</a> <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24816374-the-history-of-the-us-department-%20of-defense-programs-for-the-testing-evaluation-and-storage-of-tactical-herbicides-agent-%20orange-in-pr/?q=puerto+rico&amp;mode=document#document/p5">of-defense-programs-for-the-testing-evaluation-and-storage-of-tactical-herbicides-agent-</a> <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24816374-the-history-of-the-us-department-%20of-defense-programs-for-the-testing-evaluation-and-storage-of-tactical-herbicides-agent-%20orange-in-pr/?q=puerto+rico&amp;mode=document#document/p5">orange-in-pr/?q=puerto+rico&amp;mode=document#document/p5</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/otros/las-grandes-sequ-as-que-marcaron-a-puerto-%20rico-durante-el-siglo-xx/article_e6a37bce-5269-4040-836d-799a04358fc2.html">https://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/otros/las-grandes-sequ-as-que-marcaron-a-puerto-</a> <a href="https://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/otros/las-grandes-sequ-as-que-marcaron-a-puerto-%20rico-durante-el-siglo-xx/article_e6a37bce-5269-4040-836d-799a04358fc2.html">rico-durante-el-siglo-xx/article_e6a37bce-5269-4040-836d-799a04358fc2.html</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/12/26/mystery-creature-ravages-p%20uerto-rican-livestock/b7704250-dae0-4fa3-a886-561db637b463/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/12/26/mystery-creature-ravages-p</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/12/26/mystery-creature-ravages-p%20uerto-rican-livestock/b7704250-dae0-4fa3-a886-561db637b463/">uerto-rican-livestock/b7704250-dae0-4fa3-a886-561db637b463/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-03-mn-9730-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-03-mn-9730-story.html</a></li>
<li>&ldquo;Monsters and Messiahs by Mike Davis&rdquo;</li>
<li>&nbsp;&ldquo;Beast of Borik&eacute;n" by Julio Anta, Daniel IriZarri, Patricio Delpeche, and Lucas Gattoni</li>
</ul>

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here

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