One canal, two countries. The Panama Canal Zone came into official existence in 1912 upon completion of the Panama Canal. The United States was granted sovereignty over a 1,432 km² tract of Panamanian land, on which it attempted to create a utopian society. What was ideal...
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A summer hit and a dream. In 1996, Andrés was 10 years old and had no interest in music. But he heard a song on the radio that changed something within him. For years, he chased a dream of becoming a rock star, and that path...
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Her family kept a treasure that was thought to be lost. As a child, Evangelina Jaime enjoyed spending afternoons with her paternal grandmother, watching her tend to the garden. Evangelina was still too young to understand that her grandmother was the keeper of an ancestral secret...
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A professional wrestler performs a different kind of show. Diego’s favorite place was the ring. There, he became the professional wrestler Diego ‘Dos Pistolas’ Garijo. But after getting hit and almost losing his eyesight, he had to walk away from his passion. To find a new...
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Obstetric violence at the border. In 2022, the Dominican Republic deported hundreds of pregnant Haitian women, a practice that had reportedly been curtailed following criticism by the government by the United Nations and other organizations. This investigation, produced with support from the Pulitzer Center, was originally published...
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Where do the clothes we throw away end? A corner of the Atacama Desert has become a garbage dump where tons of clothes that other countries have discarded are piling up. This story was originally published in El hilo, a podcast co-produced by Radio Ambulante Estudios that...
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When your community is devoured by tourism. The boom in foreign investment in Puerto Rico has driven up housing prices and made the island less and less livable for Puerto Ricans. This is what is known as gentrification and it means a crisis for entire communities. This...
Being different is never easy. Since he was a baby, Benjamin learned things in his own unique way, which was, at first glance, an advantage. But it would end up becoming a nightmare for him and his family. Find the English translation of "The Kid with all...
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