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...
► 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]: Hola, Ambulantes. What a week, right? Well, you know we don’t cover daily news, but we’re following the coronavirus news very closely. Soon, we’re...
► 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. Last week we told you about El Hilo, the podcast we’re about to release. We’re very excited. We know that you have...
Ernesto Gómez grew up like any other Mexican kid in Chihuahua. But when he turned 10 years old, he had to confront a hidden past that put his nationality, his family, and even his own name in doubt. You can read the Spanish transcript of the episode, an English translation. This story...
► 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...
When your identity is classified as a disease. Although the WHO stopped classifying homosexuality as a disease more than 25 years ago, there are still places in Ecuador that offer so-called treatments to cure it. In this episode we tell the story of Andrés and Andrea...
Laura Pigatin is exceptionally talented, but in her country, there are still prejudices that want to block her way. It was just 40 years ago that women in Brazil were forbidden from playing soccer. And even today, there are many who still believe that soccer fields...