Translation by Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. In may of 2015 I traveled to El Salvador for the first time. During that time, according to official numbers, El Salvador was the most violent country in the world....
When tragedy struck Edith’s life, it felt like the end of the world. She disconnected from everything that gave her joy. But then, almost by accident, she found her way back, out of that dark place — through a screen. You can read a Spanish transcript of the...
Translation by Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I'm Daniel Alarcón. In the 80s, Edith lived in Lima, Peru with her husband, Víctor, and her 3 children. She was a public school teacher. Víctor was a photographer. Edith had golden hair which...
Translated by Patrick Moseley (SOUNDBITE FROM THE JOSÉ GABRIEL SHOW) [Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I'm Daniel Alarcón. And this is...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
Translation by Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante from NPR. I'm Daniel Alarcón. Let's start here, the day I met Rosa...
Two of the most violent cities in the world are in Honduras. How can everyday life be in a place practically consumed by violence? To what extent is it possible to have a "normal" life when insecurity dictates your day to day? You can read a Spanish transcript...
Translation by Patrick Moseley [Flores Simbrón]: No, no, I know that’s normal, you know? Of course I saw that there were young people, adults, you know, that were blind. But I didn't know how many...
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...
Translation by Patrick Moseley [Daniel Alarcón, host]: A warning...
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...
[Daniel Alarcón, host]: Welcome to Radio Ambulante, from NPR. I’m Daniel Alarcón. [Micah]: When you look at a person, how many seconds, or milliseconds, does it take for you to make a mental picture of that person, right? Immediately, the first thing that you notice: is...