Kaiser Soccer Club

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...

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...

Aemilia is ready to learn the secrets of her brain. Her entire life, Aemilia has perceived the world in a different way: every time she hears a word, she also tastes it.  And this isn’t just her imagination: a reaction occurs in her brain that makes...

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...