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Grab Your Bionic Chanclas: Alt.Latino's Mixtape For The Robot Apocalypse

By Jasmine Garsd

Published April 23, 2015 at 2:28 PM EDT

<em>Vendaval, el Capitán Invencible </em>was a comic book series created in the 1950s by Víctor Mora and Antonio Bernal. — *Vendaval, el Capitán Invencible* was a comic book series created in the 1950s by Víctor Mora and Antonio Bernal.

One of our favorite things to talk about here on Alt.Latino, in addition to music, is the inevitable war between humans and robots.

That's not true. We've never talked about this topic before, in part because I suspect Felix is a Chicano robot — deployed by a mysterious Fresno-based underground organization — who activates when he hears the Grateful Dead.

Whether or not that is the case (it's the case), here's my contribution to humanity: an awesome mixtape to play while we fight against the machines.

Jasmine Garsd

Jasmine Garsd is an Argentine-American journalist living in New York. She is currently NPR's Criminal Justice correspondent and the host of The Last Cup. She started her career as the co-host of Alt.Latino, an NPR show about Latin music. Throughout her reporting career she's focused extensively on women's issues and immigrant communities in America. She's currently writing a book of stories about women she's met throughout her travels.

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