Author Paola Ramos poses next to the cover of her new book, Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right.

Photo credit: Samantha Bloom

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Author Paola Ramos poses next to the cover of her new book, Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right.

Photo credit: Samantha Bloom

As we close in on the election, it’s Trump-supporting Latinos that some pollsters believe could decide this race. So how did we get here? In her new book, Defectors, Paola Ramos explains that part of the story of being Latino has always been this temptation to defect.

This episode was engineered by Josephine Nyounai.