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My Life in Creole

14 Oct

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Haiti has two official languages: French, the language in which most formal education is still taught today, and Creole, the language the vast majority of Haitians speak in their daily lives. But when Sandrine Exil moved from Colombia to Haiti, her father’s home country, he...

07 Oct

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The lives of several young university students fell apart when they discovered photos of themselves altered with artificial intelligence: the faces were theirs, but the naked bodies were not. And so began an odyssey to have this aggression recognized as a crime that would not...

30 Sep

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At the end of 1977, Néstor Delgado, Juana Benítez and their two children were preparing for a great adventure: soon, they would be among the first families to live in Antarctica. But shortly before leaving Buenos Aires, Juana received unexpected news that would put all...

24 Jun

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In 2008 the streets of Mexico were full of teenagers with long bangs, skinny jeans and black clothes adorned with little skulls. The emos, these eternally melancholy kids, seemed to have multiplied and nobody knew where they’d come from. But some of the country’s more...

17 Jun

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In 2004, pigs of various colors started appearing on the walls of the city of Guayaquil, in Ecuador. No one knew who had painted them or why. Then, the panic started. Find the English translation of "Pigcracy [Repeat]" here. Or check out the Spanish transcript here. ♥...

10 Jun

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Víctor Buso had dedicated his entire life to astronomy, although never professionally. One night — after a series of unlikely events— his career as an amateur took an unexpected twist. This is the story of how his homemade observatory in Rosario, Argentina, became the focus...

03 Jun

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Raúl Rodríguez spent nearly twenty years protecting the border between the United States and Mexico. His job as an immigration officer —deciding who could and couldn’t enter the country— was a patriotic duty. But one day, without warning, a long-held family secret shattered everything he...