LIFE
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Chile’s Hidden Library: Attic Discovery Revives the Story of Books Dictators Tried to Burn
Nearly fifty years after Pinochet's dictatorship hunted leftist texts, librarians in Santiago uncovered a forgotten cache in the National Library's…
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Mexican Director Luis Estrada Finally Brings Las Muertas to Netflix, Uncensored and Unapologetic
After three decades of trying, filmmaker Luis Estrada has adapted Jorge Ibargüengoitia's Las muertas into a fearless Netflix series. The…
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Yolocamba I Ta: Songs That Carried Hope Through El Salvador’s Darkest Nights
For fifty years, Yolocamba I Ta has carried guitars into strikes, chapels, refugee halls, and world stages, sowing music where…
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Mexico’s Desert City Enlists Manchas Pet Detective to Save Water Supplies
In Saltillo, where rain is scarce and aquifers are the only lifeline, a floppy-eared dog named Manchas is sniffing out…
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Casino Debt, a Cruise Ship Leap, and Puerto Rico’s Morning of Shock
On a bright September morning, San Juan's waterfront erupted in confusion: a man leapt from a docked cruise ship, was…
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Lady Gaga and Tim Burton Turn Mexico City’s Island of the Dolls into Pop Gothic Legend
Mexico City's Xochimilco canals have always been a crossroads of myth and cinema. With The Dead Dance, Lady Gaga and…
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Mexico City Floods Meet an Unlikely Culprit: Dog Poop, Hair, and the Wrong Bins
Mexico City's rainy season has smashed records, but clogged drains tell a different story. Behind flooded intersections lies a quieter…
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Medellín’s Tourist Homes Promise Wellness but Threaten Residents’ Place in this Colombian City
Medellín once reinvented itself with libraries, cable cars and public parks. Now cranes and jackhammers are carving boutique “tourist homes”…
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How a Colombian-American Artist on Death Row Helped Name a Killer
A nineteen-year-old mother vanishes in 1974. Decades later, a death-row painter in California befriends a serial killer and coaxes out…
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Guatemala Learns to Dance with Death, Memory, And Unfinished Histories
In three long, haunting stories, Guatemalan writer Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez turns death from a doom into a reckoning. As he…
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