LIFE
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Ecuador’s Yachay Wasi Teaches Climate Lessons Through Indigenous Language and a Garden
In Ecuador, a small intercultural bilingual school called Yachay Wasi treats environmental education as a political project rooted in Indigenous…
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Brazil’s El Agente Secreto Wins Big by Refusing Hollywood Imitation
Brazilian filmmakers are landing major awards and attention with a film set in 1977 Brazil, built on local tradition, not…
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Mexican Pop Star Turns Nahuatl and Maya Into Mainstream Fire
On a Mexico City rooftop, Azalea Báalam lifts a jaina flute and plays nine notes into the open air. What…
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Panama Sends Incarcerated Women to Clean Streets as Trash Crisis Deepens
In San Miguelito, garbage has become a daily geography—piled along sidewalks, wedged into gutters, drifting toward rivers and sea. Now…
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Ciudad Juárez Reckons with Femicide in a Film That Refuses Silence
A decade after Adriana Paz first helped put Ciudad Juárez's nightmare on screen, she is back at Sundance with "La…
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Bolivia’s Second Chances Are Made of Bread, Metal, and Thread
At three thousand nine hundred meters above sea level, just outside La Paz, a place designed for punishment smells, unexpectedly,…
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Guatemala City Faces Unrest as El Gallito Reopens and the City Feels Under Siege
After ten police killings and a state of siege, armed patrols enter El Gallito, a neighborhood long ruled by gangs,…
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Cuban Actor Breaks Dance Myths with Grief, Humor, and Motion
At Sundance, where independent cinema thrives on contradiction, a Cuban actor admits he cannot dance—and turns that confession into a…
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Bolivia’s Freestyle Behind Bars Program Gives Incarcerated Youth a Second Chance
At Qalauma on Bolivia's Altiplano, teenage voices once reduced to case files now fight for air through rhyme. A prison-yard…
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Why Colombia’s Grief for Yeison Jiménez Runs So Deep: He Gave Voice to Their Pain
When Colombia learned on January 10, 2026, that Yeison Jiménez had died in a plane crash, the reaction felt immediate…
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