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The butterfly effect: How a Texan oil gusher led to the birth of the telenovela

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In our latest Butterfly Effect, we connect the dots between the oil prospectors who started the Texas oil boom in 1901 and Sean Penn interviewing Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, one of the world’s most wanted drug lords, in the jungle.

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