Radio Ambulante · N.N. [Daniel Alarcón]: I’m Daniel Alarcón. Today in Radio Ambulante: No Name. In Northern Colombia there is a town called Puerto Berrío. There, since the 80’s, bodies have appeared floating down the Magdalena River — hundreds of anonymous bodies, victims of the violent...
In April, New York became the pandemic's global epicenter. During the most difficult weeks, Daniel Alarcón and his seven-year-old son looked out the window at an unrecognizable city. What stories do they tell now, when the worst seems to be over? A special episode before the...
Gabriela Wiener lives with her family in Madrid, a city battered by Covid-19. Nothing has been the same since the virus arrived in the Spanish capital, but she never imagined she'd experience its consequences first-hand. You can read a Spanish transcript of the episode or an English translation. ► We just launched...
[Jorge Caraballo, Growth Editor]: Hello, thank you for listening to Radio Ambulante! We would like to understand better who listens to us and how they use podcasts. Please help us by completing a short and anonymous survey at npr.org/podcastsurvey (written as one word). It’s in...
► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. [Jorge Caraballo, Growth Editor]: Hi, Ambulantes. This is Jorge Caraballo, growth editor. Before we start, I want to remind you about our new podcast: El hilo. El...
Diana would do anything for justice. When her boyfriend Giovani was murdered, Diana was devastated. It wasn’t just the pain of the loss, but the fact that there were so many gaps in the case, so many unresolved questions. When she realized that the authorities weren’t...
A factory tried to control nature. In the spring of 2018, the people living near the central Mexican town of San Lorenzo Almecatla began hearing loud explosions. They couldn't have imagined what was causing those sounds. You can read a Spanish transcript of the episode or an English translation. ►...
► 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]: Hello, Ambulantes. Before we start I want to remind you about our new podcast: El hilo. It’s a little different from Radio Ambulante, each...
In 2014, a British newspaper published an odd story: in southeastern Brazil there was a town inhabited only by women. According to the piece, the women who lived in this community, Noiva do Cordeiro, were young, beautiful and desperate to find husbands. The town and...
► 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]: Hello, ambulantes, greetings from my closet. Have you heard the new episode of El hilo? It came out Friday and it’s about how the novel...
► 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]: Ambulantes, did you listen to El hilo? It’s Radio Ambulante Estudios’ new podcast. Last Friday we published our first episode and it’s about what’s...
One act of violence defines two generations On Friday morning, March 29, 1985, a helicopter flew over the School of Latin American Integration in Santiago, Chile. What happened next would shake the nation, and for one student in particular would mark the beginning of a life...
Daniel Alarcón spent a year and a half investigating the episode 'The helicopter, the silence, the gunshot, the escape'. He wrote the following article at the beginning of that process, in December of 2018, while he was covering the extradition hearings in Paris. The first time...
► 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]: Hi, ambulantes. I hope you are well. You don’t need me to tell you that we’re living through complicated, even surreal, days. Each country is...
In Nicaragua, informing the public became a dangerous task. In April 2018, a social crisis that left 328 dead and 100.000 exiles erupted in Nicaragua. Lucía Pineda and her team of journalists at 100% Noticias extensively covered and denounced the abuses perpetrated by the Daniel Ortega...
Olmedo Rentería dreamt of becoming a famous magician. He managed, but not as he expected. You can read the Spanish transcript of the episode, an English translation. ► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante’s stories. More info at lupa.app. ► We’re launching a new podcast soon. It’s called...