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Translation – Peru, the Champion

05 Jun

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Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro. September 3th, 1989. The Chilean soccer team was playing a crucial match against Brazil to earn a spot in the Italia ‘90 World Cup. They needed a win, and Roberto Rojas, alias el Cóndor —captain of the national team, goalkeeper...

29 May

Posted at 06:04h in Translation by

Translation by: Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]: Hello, hello! I'm Daniel Alarcón, the Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante. Before this episode, I have an announcement, some news I've been wanting to share for a while: Radio Ambulante is going to do two live shows in September...

22 May

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Translation by: Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]:  Hello? [Diana Caballero]:  Hey! [Daniel]: Hi, how are you, Diana? Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I'm Daniel Alarcón. Ok. Let's start here, with Diana Caballero.   [Diana]: I'm a Colombian woman, from Baranquilla but I've lived in Medellín for many years. I'm...

22 May

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Pablo Escobar died 25 years ago in Medellín, Colombia. Today, despite the suffering he caused, at least 15 tours designed around his life are offered in the city. We went on one of those tours to learn what story they tell about Escobar, and to...

15 May

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In the mid 50s, a failed experiment in Brazil led to "killer bees" that took over Latin America. Four decades later these bee colonies arrived in Puerto Rico, and no one expected the changes they went through in the island. You can read a Spanish transcript of the...

08 May

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Nohemí was taken from her home when she was just a girl, and sent to work as domestic employee for an upper-middle class family in Bogotá. This is her story: How she survived years of abuse, neglect, and misfortune; and how, decades later, an act...

08 May

Posted at 06:05h in Translation by

Translation by: Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. Now that we’re part of NPR we want to play some of our favorite stories for our new audience. So, let’s start here. [Nohemí]: The first memory I have from when I...

01 May

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Many migrants awaiting asylum hearings in the US have a difficult choice: they can stay in detention as their case makes its way through the system, or they can pay an impossibly expensive bond. For those who choose to pay, many use the services of...

24 Apr

Posted at 06:31h in Audio, Episodes by

Soldado Micolta is one of the most recognizable characters of the popular Colombian TV show Sábados Felices. He’s is every negative Afro-Colombian stereotype rolled into one caricature: he’s clumsy, lazy, naive, ignorant, speaking in an exaggerated version of the accent of Colombia’s Pacific Coast, the...

17 Apr

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Translation by Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I'm Daniel Alarcón. (SOUNDBITE OF A CELEBRATION) [People Chanting]: Lesbians against war! Lesbians against capital! Lesbians against racism, against neo-liberal racism! [Daniel]: The audio you're listening to was recorded by Luis Fernando Vargas, our...