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More than a word game. Juan Pablo was a boy when his grandmother taught him that there were words that could be reversed: palindromes. Ever since, he couldn’t stop. He started reading everything back to front. For a long time, he thought he was the only...

Jhon says out loud what others say with their hands. Although officially Jhon is a bodyguard in the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office, in reality he’s that institution’s only sign language interpreter. For almost 30 years, he’s worked on cases throughout the country, but one of them in...

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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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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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...