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Two Notes

27 Mar

Posted at 07:07h in Audio, Episodes by

Álvaro was at the peak of his musical career — leading a band for a national television program — when, one day, he found he couldn’t play two notes of his saxophone. This had never happened to him. Those two notes were the beginning of...

20 Mar

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[Daniel Alarcón, host]: Ok, in this story, there is only one place to start…Here: (SOUNDBITE FROM YOUTUBE VIDEO) [Francisco Papas Fritas]: You don’t have to pay anymore, brothers and sisters, you don’t have to pay anymore, no more. Don’t fear, families, that your houses are going to...

20 Mar

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How did millions of dollars of Chilean student debt go up in smoke? You can read a Spanish transcript of the episode, it’s useful if you’re learning the language with this podcast. Or you can also read an English translation. If you want to get our new episodes via Whatsapp, please text...

13 Mar

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Mariana lives by herself in a house in Tijuana and now and then rents rooms to tourists or travelers. One day, one of those visitors crossed a line, and invaded her privacy. She decided to do something about it — but not exactly in the...

13 Mar

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Translation by Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]: One, two, three. One, two, three. Okay. Eliseo, what's the biggest number you know? [Eliseo]: 10. [Daniel]: 10? And what number is bigger than 10? [Eliseo]: 100. [Daniel]: The story you're about to hear is very special for Radio Ambulante: with this episode...

20 Feb

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In Parán, a small town in the Peruvian Andes, there are many blind men. Our producers Marco Avilés and Annie Avilés tell us the story of this isolated village and a plague of blindness that could not be explained. You can read a Spanish transcript of the episode, it’s...

06 Feb

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After a complicated divorce, Alejandro Canedo was unemployed and in charge of his two small children. It was a desperate situation, the kind where everything looks bleak, but Alejandro was saved along with his family. And he did it by becoming another person, in a...

30 Jan

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Micah has spent a life pushing against the borders of a category most everyone takes for granted: gender. You can read a Spanish transcript of the episode, it’s useful if you’re learning the language with this podcast. Or you can also read an English translation.  ...

23 Jan

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Since 2000, more than a hundred journalists have been killed in Mexico. 2017 set a record, with 12 deaths. Journalist Anabel Hernández knows firsthand how dangerous this work can be. She lives with bodyguards 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, due to her...

23 Jan

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Translation by Patrick Moseley [Anabel Hernández]: For a long time, for many days, many years…  I lived thinking that. That today is my last day. [Daniel Alarcón, host]: This is the Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández. [Anabel]: I’m a single mother. I’m responsible for two children, living with that...

16 Jan

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Translation by Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]: Before we begin, we want to warn listeners that this episode includes detailed descriptions of abuse and is not suitable for children. Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. Today we’ll start with this man. [Pedro Salinas]:...