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

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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 8 [es]: para diferenciar la historia del cuento
Caption 8 [en]: to differentiate history from story
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Seva Vive - 5. La historia se da cuenta - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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 4 [es]: Lo que es ficción para uno,
Caption 4 [en]: What is fiction for one person
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1:39

Seva Vive - 4. El diario del general Miles

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Historians continue to point out logical gaps which call the tale of Seva's accuracy into question.
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Caption 10 [es]: porque Miles para borrar el... el ejemplo heroico de estos puertorriqueños,
Caption 10 [en]: because Miles, in order to erase the... the heroic example of these Puerto Ricans,
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Seva Vive - 3. ¿Mito o conspiración?

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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 35 [es]: Para poder sostener eso y que tuviéramos que esperar
Caption 35 [en]: In order to be able to sustain that and for us to have had to wait
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3:04

Seva Vive - 2. La copla

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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 36 [es]: va para el archivo nacional de Puerto Rico.
Caption 36 [en]: he goes to the national archives of Puerto Rico.
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Seva Vive - 1. ¿Indocumentada o bien documentada?

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Puerto Rico

Luis López Nieves' short story "Seva" takes place during the 1898 US invasion of Puerto Rico, in the fictional town of the same name, Seva. The story, first published in the newspaper Claridad, and which many readers mistook for fact, has sparked a very real debate about culture, identity, history and truth amongst Puerto Ricans of all stripes. The documentary Seva Vive explores these themes.
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Caption 41 [es]: para encontrar un mapa de Puerto Rico
Caption 41 [en]: to find a map of Puerto Rico

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