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Seva Vive - 3. ¿Mito o conspiración?

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Historians discuss the extent to which popular myths such as Seva affect people's perception of history in Puerto Rico.

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Caption 51 [es]: no puede ser ignorado por los pueblos vecinos.
Caption 51 [en]: cannot be ignored by the neighboring towns.

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Seva Vive - 5. La historia se da cuenta - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Historians continue to discuss the subjective nature of recorded history and the fine line between fiction and fact.

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Caption 34 [es]: La historia no puede dar cuenta de la simultaneidad del tiempo,
Caption 34 [en]: History cannot account for the simultaneity of time;

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Seva Vive - 5. La historia se da cuenta - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

What is history? What is fiction? Is history fact? Do people believe history or fiction more readily? These are the kinds of questions critics ask as "Seva Vive" continues.

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Caption 5 [es]: puede ser realidad para otro.
Caption 5 [en]: could be reality for another.

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Seva Vive - 2. La copla

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

History tells us that the 1898 U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico occurred in June and from the south. The fictional short story, Seva, tells a different story, one of an invasion from the east that came a month earlier. A type of musical oral history known as a "copla" mirrors the fictional story.

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Caption 9 [es]: que puede ser veraz o puede ser inventado.
Caption 9 [en]: which could be true or could be made up.

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