Summary: <p>With Congress set to consider bills next week that could set the future of Puerto Rican self-determination, we consider how a 70-year-old promise to decolonize the island keeps getting broken. Plus, how Puerto Ricans notched a hugely symbolic victory over the U.S. — during the 2004 Olympics.</p> <p>1. Yarimar Bonilla [<a href="https://twitter.com/yarimarbonilla">@yarimarbonilla</a>], political anthropologist at Hunter College, examines the afterlife of Puerto Rico's political experiment. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/what-happens-when-political-project-dies-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>2. Julio Ricardo Varela [<a href="https://twitter.com/julito77">@julito77</a>], co-host of <a href="https://twitter.com/InTheThickShow">In the Thick</a> and editorial director at Futuro Media, on what the showdown between the Puerto Rican and U.S. Olympic basketball teams in 2004 meant to him then and now. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/david-and-goliath-play-basketball-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p><em>Music:</em></p> <p><em>We Insist by Zoe KeatingYUMAVISION by ÌFÉMalphino by Ototoa</em></p> <p><em><a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/la-brega">La Brega</a> is a podcast series hosted by OTM producer/reporter Alana Casanova-Burgess. The series uses narrative storytelling and investigative journalism to reflect and reveal how la brega has defined so many aspects of life in Puerto Rico, and is <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/la-brega/episodes">available in English and Spanish</a>. </em></p>
