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January 7, 2025 30 mins

What happened at Jonestown, Guyana, is something that has spawned an immense number of books, movies, and even day-to-day phrases, but what it created the most were questions.


The biggest of all: why were his followers so easily convinced to drink the Kool-Aid (literally)? And why didn't anyone see this coming?


In this episode of the Learn Spanish with Stories podcast, we travel to a country rarely featured in Latin American history, but which carries this dark stain to this day: the story of Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre.


Transcript of this episode is available at: https://podcast.lingomastery.com/listen/1667

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