03 Mar No Cure Needed – 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...
No Cure Needed – Translation
03 Mar No Cure Needed
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...
25 Feb Laurinha Wants to Play
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...
25 Feb Laurinha Wants to Play – 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]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. Today’s story starts in June of last year, during the Women’s World Cup. It was a...
19 Feb The Kids – Translation
[Omar Chabán]: Good evening Cromañón! Welcome to the last event of the year. Thank you to this beautiful, distinguished crowd. [Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. (ARCHIVE SOUNDBITE) [Omar Chabán]: Let’s start the show. With you and for you: Callejeros! [Daniel]: The audio you’re listening comes from...
18 Feb A City in Two – Translation
[Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. So, let's assume that because of the very nature of our podcast, we're interested in borders. For all the reasons you can imagine. They're places of transition. Of cultural and linguistic fluidity. They're...
18 Feb A City in Two
Maps show two cities; up close, it’s a little more complicated. The border between Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, and El Paso in the US, is a place of cultural and linguistic fluidity, a place of exchange and transit. But the attack at a Walmart in El...
11 Feb The Judge
What happens when a centuries old justice system confronts with twenty-first century problems in one of the world's most violent countries? This episode was first published in August 2016. You can read the Spanish transcript of the episode or an English translation. ► Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio...
11 Feb The Judge – Translation
[Daniel]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. Today we’re going back to our archives, with a story from 2016. [Juez Zapeta]: 5, 6, 7...
04 Feb Closed Signal – Translation
[Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante from NPR. I'm Daniel Alarcón. Today we're starting with an audio which was recorded secretly. I'm warning you the quality isn't great. Here's the context: it was December 2018 and the voice you're going to hear belongs to Juan...
04 Feb Closed Signal
The Colombian journalist Santiago Rivas spoke out against a law that threatened public television. The decision was to silence him. Accusations against governments for censoring those who think differently are common; what is unusual is finding evidence that proves how it happened. In this episode, a...
28 Jan Until We Find Him
What happened to Marco Antonio Molina Theissen? Minutes after receiving one of the best news of their lives, the Molina Theissen family’s world fell apart. Almost forty years later, their case is emblematic of a conflict that Guatemala has never fully dealt with. You can read the Spanish transcript of...
28 Jan Until We Find Him – Translation
[Daniel Alarcón, host]: Ambulantes who speak English and live in the United States, the research team at NPR needs your voice. They want to test how precise the algorithms that convert speech to text are, when they’re used by people with different accents and from...
21 Jan Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
A book causes outrage in Chile. Pilar Quintana, a Colombian writer, never imagined that her book "Little Red Riding Hood Eats the Wolf" —a collection of short stories with explicit sexual content —would be read by children. But almost 300 copies of the book ended up...
21 Jan Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf – Translation
[Lupa]: Surely this has happened to you: you listen to an episode of this wonderful podcast and you think, “Oh my god, Randy would love this”. Or Joanne or Connie or Matthew. And then, “Ay, caramba! But with his two semesters of Spanish, my gringuito...
14 Jan The Extraterrestrials – Translation
[Daniel Alarcón, host]: Hello, Ambulantes, happy new year! If you follow this podcast, you’ve probably heard of Lupa, our new Spanish learning app. With Lupa, intermediate-level students have just the right technology assistance to train their ears. This app helps you listen, so you can learn...