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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
