Imperfect Paradise

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July 04, 2022 The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 8
Adolfo finds new information about the night Oscar died, and has to have a difficult conversation about what really happened to Oscar.

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43 min
June 27, 2022 The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 7
Adolfo learns about the dangers of Santa Barbara’s bluffs and gets a second opinion on Oscar’s death report.

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38 min
June 20, 2022 The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 6
Adolfo reckons with his own relationship to his past and the Chicano student movement. And he finds someone who may have clues about what happened the night Oscar died.

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32 min
June 13, 2022 The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 5
Was Oscar going to leave the Chicano student movement? Adolfo discovers new information about Oscar’s last months.

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46 min
June 06, 2022 The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 4
Adolfo finds a briefcase with information that could lead to clues about Oscar’s death.

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37 min
May 30, 2022 The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 3
Adolfo gets his first lead on a person possibly involved in Oscar’s death.

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37 min
May 24, 2022 The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 2
Adolfo learns that there was a dark side to Oscar’s experience in the Chicano student movement.

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46 min
May 23, 2022 The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 1
Oscar Gomez was a star of the 1990s Chicano student movement and then, unexpectedly, he died. A rattling event in host Adolfo Guzman-Lopez’s life spurs him to investigate Oscar’s death.

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31 min
May 13, 2022 Introducing Season 2: Imperfect Paradise - The Forgotten Revolutionary
In the early 1990’s, hateful anti-immigrant political rhetoric roused California’s Chicano student rights movement, and college student and radio host Oscar Gomez was one of its most prominent voices. Some thought he was going to be the next Cesar Chavez. But on November 17, 1994, Oscar was mysteriously found dead on the Santa Barbara shore.

Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary follows host and reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez as he investigates Oscar’s death and revisits his own past and ties to the Chicano movement.

The Forgotten Revolutionary is sponsored by BetterHelp and our listeners get 10% off their first month of online therapy at BetterHelp.com/imperfect

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5 min
January 28, 2022 Home is Life: Episode 3
David attempts to rally his supporters, some of whom find themselves conflicted.

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31 min

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Imperfect Paradise is LAist's weekly on-demand news magazine show that pulls back the curtain and dives deeper into the biggest and most consequential SoCal stories of the week from our newsroom. New episodes drop every Friday.