A beloved character in children’s literature and an uncomfortable conversation about racism. In 1947, Costa Rican writer Joaquín Gutiérrez published "Cocorí", a children's book that has become part of the country's literary canon. But beginning in the 1980s, Black Costa Ricans began expressing their outrage with...
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Dennis tells his mom everything. EVERYTHING. When Dennis Maxwell moved to San Francisco, he found it to be much more diverse and liberal than his native Santiago, Chile. He was there to fulfill his dream of becoming a filmmaker, but his path would begin in an...
Four words that would change a country forever. On August 8, 1990, Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller, cabinet leader and Economics minister of the recently inaugurated government of Alberto Fujimori, appeared on national television announcing substantial price hikes for basic household necessities. With this news, thousands of...
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The new Themes on Lupa, our app for intermediate Spanish learners, go deep into the real Latin America....
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Carla tried to repair what seemed irreparable. Carla hadn't spoken to her mother in two years and had decided she never would again. The damage was simply too great. Until one day she realized that, in order to move forward, she needed to understand everything that...
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The greatest Brazilian soccer player who never played. This is the story of a soccer legend, a player like no other: Carlos Henrique Raposo, aka Kaiser. In the 80s and 90s, his name appeared on the rosters of several of Brazil’s top teams, including Botafogo, Flamengo...
Misinformation threatens the advance of massive vaccination in Latin America. As well as millions of lives. Vaccination against covid-19 is advancing unevenly in Latin America. There are many factors affecting the progress, but beyond access to vaccines, there is a threat affecting every country: misinformation. This story...
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In the last 50 years, the Andes have lost half of their glaciers. Venezuela could become the first country to be left without any at all. Climate change is causing glaciers to melt rapidly, and this is especially serious in the Andes region, which has lost...
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One gene and the search for answers. In the mid-80s, doctor Francisco Lopera and nurse Lucía Madrigal came across a cluster of cases of early onset Alzheimer's near Medellín. It was unusual for so many people in the same area to have this rare variant of...