► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. [Daniel Alarcón]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. Today we’re going to travel all over the continent, aboard a Colombian plane. But it won’t be...
► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. [Daniel Alarcón]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante. From NPR, I’m Daniel Alarcón. (SOUND BITE FROM “AGRANDADYTOS”) [Mariano Sinito, small boy]: Our Father, who art in the soccer fields, hallowed be thy...
► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. [Daniel Alarcón]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I am Daniel Alarcón. Today we start with him. [Daniel Adum]: My name is Daniel Adum Gilbert. [Danie Alarcón]: Daniel was born...
► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. [Daniel Alarcón]: Eight years ago, before the first episode of Radio Ambulante was broadcast, over 600 people gave to our donation drive and we collected what we...
► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. [Daniel Alarcón]: Hello, hello! Before we begin I want to give a special thank you to everyone who has joined our membership program, Deambulantes. And as part of...
► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. [Daniel Alarcón]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante from NPR. I am Daniel Alarcón. Today we are going to the highlands to meet with Lidia Huayllas. She was only one...
Our new season premieres on September 14. It will be our most ambitious yet, with humor and experiments we’ve never tried before. We’re really excited and want to tell you a bit about what’s coming this year. You can read a Spanish transcript here. ► Lupa is our new app...
Episodes will cover news from Latin America and around the world, combining VICE Audio’s global reporting network and El hilo’s narrative storytelling NEW YORK, May 24, 2021 -- VICE World News, the international news network from VICE Media Group, and leading Spanish-language audio producer Radio Ambulante...
Have you ever dreamt of meeting your god? For the followers of the Church of Maradona, speaking to Diego was like ascending to heaven. When he was nine years old, Mariano had that experience unexpectedly and in front of his whole country. But it would have...
The story of Latin America’s longest and most dramatic airplane hijacking In the early ‘70s, hijacking a plane in Colombia was easy, so much so that it was almost routine: the pilots weren’t surprised and the crew wouldn’t even resist. But the hijacking of plane HK-1274...
When Lidia was a child, she dreamed of seeing the world from the top of a mountain. But it wouldn’t be easy for an Aymara woman like herself. Historically, indigenous women in Bolivia haven’t been allowed to do many things, like climbing mountains. But a group of Aymara...
Perhaps no one remembers that there was a day when El Salvador woke up with almost no killings. The daily death toll from the long-running conflict between El Salvador’s gangs is so high that a day without murders would be as unthinkable as a day without...
Alexis Figueroa is willing to do the unthinkable to get a celebrity’s autograph. In this episode, we follow him as he attempts to get the one autograph that got away, that of an aging rocker he’s been after for more than a decade. Will Alexis...
► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. [Daniel Alarcón, host]: A warning: in today’s episode you’ll hear words that aren’t suitable for children. Discretion is advised. Welcome to Radio Ambulante from NPR. I'm Daniel Alarcón. ...
Carolina had never liked soccer. She never imagined she would be in the middle of a case that shocked the sport in her country. Carolina Rozo started her work as a physical therapist in Colombia’s women’s national under-17 soccer team thinking it was the opportunity of...
Being a lucky baby was a simple matter of being born the right day, at the right time. Or at least that's how it seemed. In the early morning of September 4, 1958, in a small shack in the village of Ocú, the most eagerly awaited...