The midwives' gift would lead them to confront an entire country. For a long time, Mayan midwives in Guatemala have sustained their country's public health system by delivering babies where the State cannot provide for its citizens. One of these midwives is Graciela Velásquez, who has...
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A disease, a stigma, a man and only one place to live in. For centuries, many Colombians—among them, policemen, merchants, notaries—were confined in villages exclusively for people who suffered the same disease. When Claudia learned that her uncle had spent his entire life in one of...
One journal. Two sisters. Thousands of kilometers between them. After their parents divorced and their Dad moved from Mexico to Arizona, Fernanda started to imagine how it would be to live in the United States. She was 13 years old and started a journal –with an...
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Joanna spent a terrifying night in one of Miami’s most iconic attractions. Joanna Hausmann had always felt proud of her way of looking at the world: if something wasn’t logical, it had no meaning for her. But one night in October of 2016, she had a...
To stay near her children, Juana was willing to give up her freedom. When she was ten years old, Juana's parents emigrated to the USA and left her and her siblings in Guatemala, under their grandparents' care. Some years later, Juana had to repeat the same...
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► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. ► You can read "I will not marry" Spanish transcript here. [Daniel Alarcón]: This is Radio Ambulante from NPR, I’m Daniel Alarcón. Mayra Pop was born in the village...
Two urban tribes. A public square. Only one winner. In 2008 the streets of Mexico were full of teenagers with long bangs, skinny jeans and black clothes adorned with little skulls. The emos, these eternally melancholy kids, seemed to have multiplied and nobody knew where they’d...
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How Edith found herself again… through a screen. When tragedy struck Edith’s life, it felt like the end of the world. She disconnected from everything that gave her joy. But then, almost by accident, she found her way back, out of that dark place. Find the English...
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Mayra was willing to do anything to keep going to school. When she started school, Mayra Pop felt she had found her place in the world: she liked being in the classroom with her classmates and listening to the teacher, and above all she liked studying,...